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Table 1 Patients’ characteristics in the high versus low perceived GP empathy groups

From: General practitioners’ patient-centredness and responses to patients’ emotional cues and concerns: relationships with perceived empathy in areas of high and low socioeconomic deprivation

Patient questionnaire category

Patient group

Statistic

Low CARE

High CARE

p-value

Age

Low deprivation

Mean

50.6

52.5

0.51

(SD)

(21.1)

(19.2)

N

27

27

High deprivation

Mean

46.5

56.2

<0.05

(SD)

(19.3)

(14.6)

N

26

30

Gender

Low deprivation

% Female

75.9

77.8

0.87

N (%)

29 (51.8)

27 (48.2)

High deprivation

% Female

46.2

70.0

0.07

N (%)

26 (46.4)

30 (53.6)

Mean CARE measure score

Low deprivation

Mean

38.5

46.7

<0.05

(SD)

(1.3)

(0.5)

N

22

25

High deprivation

Mean

38.5

47.2

0.01

(SD)

(0.8)

(0.4)

N

22

28