Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the sample including means, standard deviations, frequencies and percentages (N = 772)
Characteristics | Mean, (SD) |
|---|---|
Age (mean, SD) | 38.75 (7.84) |
Working years (mean, SD) | 14.20 (8.58) |
Degree | Participants, n (%) |
 Junior college | 113 (14.6) |
 Bachelor | 473 (61.3) |
 Master | 126 (16.3) |
 Doctorate | 60 (7.8) |
Specialization | |
 Operating physicians | 272 (35.2) |
 Non-operating physicians | 500 (64.8) |
Number of patients treated per week | |
 Less than 50 | 179 (23.2) |
 50–100 | 281 (36.4) |
 101–200 | 99 (12.8) |
 More than 200 | 213 (27.6) |
Hospital level | |
 Category 1 (Tertiary) | 447 (61.8) |
 Category 2 (Others) | 295 (38.2) |
  Secondary | 209 (27.1) |
  Primary | 65 (8.4) |
  Resident physicians | 21 (2.7) |
Work place (Region) | |
 Anhui | 5 (0.6) |
 Beijing | 2 (0.3) |
 Chongqing | 3 (0.4) |
 Fujian | 3 (0.4) |
 Gansu | 4 (0.5) |
 Guangdong | 15 (1.9) |
 Guanxi | 23 (3) |
 Guizhou | 13 (1.7) |
 Hebei | 23 (3) |
 Henan | 28 (3.6) |
 Hubei | 442 (57.3) |
 Hunan | 5 (0.6) |
 Inner Mongolia | 11 (1.4) |
 Jiangsu | 9 (1.2) |
 Jiangxi | 5 (0.6) |
 Jilin | 8 (1) |
 Liaoning | 27 (3.5) |
 Shaanxi | 9 (1.2) |
 Shandong | 48 (6.2) |
 Shanghai | 36 (4.7) |
 Shanxi | 1 (0.1) |
 Sichuan | 6 (0.8) |
 Tianjin | 1 (0.1) |
 Xinjiang | 13 (1.7) |
 Yunnan | 3 (0.4) |
 Zhejiang | 22 (2.8) |
 Unknown | 7 (0.9) |
Work place (grouped) | |
 North | 23 (3.0) |
 Northeast | 35 (4.5) |
 East | 128 (16.6) |
 Central south | 543 (70.3) |
 Southwest | 32 (4.1) |
 Northwest | 4 (0.5) |
Total | 772 |