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Table 3 Descriptive results of the k-means cluster analysis (mean, SD, %)

From: What do patients think about the Hungarian health care system and medical students’ learning outcomes? A cross-sectional study on the patients’ perspective in Hungary

Variables

Clusters

 

1

2

3

4

N

317

252

377

145

Grand mean of importance over the 16 learning outcomes (SD)

4.37

(0.24)

4.60

(0.26)

4.83

(0.17)

3.86

(0.31)

Grand mean of satisfaction over the 16 learning outcomes (SD)

4.22

(0,36)

2.99

(0.51)

4.66

(0.34)

3.46

(0.45)

Mean of age (SD)

54.97

(17.16)

44.21

(16.96)

57.29

(18.24)

47.28

(19.98)

Size of settlement (%)

    

 Village

2.8

2.8

7.4

3.4

 Town

32.2

21.4

31.3

15.9

 City

65.0

75.8

61.3

80.7

Level of education* (%)

    

 Primary school

8.2

4.4

17.8

3.4

 Secondary school

67.8

64.3

65.0

64.1

 College/university

24.0

31.3

17.2

32.4

Gender (%)

    

 Male

52.1

36.9

49.1

66.2

 Female

47.9

63.1

50.9

33.8

Frequency of doctor visits (%)

    

 Maximum two times a year

24.6

28.2

23.1

30.3

 Several times a year

30.9

36.1

24.1

39.3

 Once a month

34.4

29.0

35.3

22.1

 Once a week

6.6

3.6

8.8

5.5

 Several times a week

3.5

3.2

8.8

2.8

  1. * We handled the patients’ answers who marked ‘other’ category in the variable of level of education as missing data in the cluster analysis
  2. The table shows the descriptive results (means, ratios) of the four-clustered non-hierarchical k-means cluster analysis. The analysis shows that the different clusters have different characteristics and ratings of importance and satisfaction. Cluster 3 has the highest importance and satisfaction rates. Cluster 4 has the lowest importance rates and Cluster 2 the lowest satisfaction rates