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Table 3 Use of online booking, video consultation, and data transmission via an app to a health insurance company during the shutdown to contain COVID-19

From: Patient connectivity with healthcare professionals and health insurer using digital health technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic: a German cross-sectional study

Age generation

Generation Z

Generation Y

Generation X

Baby Boomer

Traditionalists

Kruskal–Wallis test

Number of health technologies used

 0

59.5%

69%

76.6%

74.2%

74.3%

 

 1

25.2%

20.2%

16.5%

19.7%

19.5%

 

 2

9.8%

7%

4.6%

5.5%

5.7%

 

 3

5.5%

3.8%

2.3%

0.6%

0.5%

p <0.001

 Total (n = 1.570)

163

416

436

345

210

 

Residence

Rural area

Small town

Medium-sized city

Urban city

 

Kruskal–Wallis test

Number of health technologies used

 0

76.1%

74.8%

68.6%

69.8%

  

 1

18.5%

16.4%

22.4%

20.1%

  

 2

4.5%

5.9%

6.8%

6.8%

  

 3

0.9%

2.8%

2.2%

3.3%

 

p <0.050

 Total (n = 1.570)

330

353

370

517

  

Subjective social status

Low

Medium

High

  

Kruskal–Wallis test

Number of health technologies used

 0

76.5%

72.2%

68.7%

   

 1

17.3%

19.8%

20.6%

   

 2

4.3%

6.2%

7.3%

   

 3

1.9%

1.8%

3.5%

  

p <0.050

 Total (n = 1.570)

370

651

549

   

Education

Low

Medium

High

   

 0

78.5%

71.4%

62.4%

   

 1

15.9%

20.1%

23.8%

   

 2

3.7%

6.7%

8.5%

   

 3

1.9%

1.7%

5.3%

  

p <0.001

 Total

476

812

282

   

Subjective health status

Good to very good

Poor to less good

   

Kruskal–Wallis test

 0

72.2%

71.5%

    

 1

19.2%

20%

    

 2

5.6%

6.9%

    

 3

3%

1.5%

   

n.s

 Total (n = 1.570)

976

594

    

Gender

Male

Female

   

Wilcoxon-Mann–Whitney test

 0

72.6%

71.3%

    

 1

18.5%

20.5%

    

 2

5.6%

6.6%

    

 3

3.3%

1.5%

   

n.s

 Total (n = 1.570)

785

785

    

Chronic illness

Not existing

Existing

   

Wilcoxon-Mann–Whitney test

 0

75.2%

68.4%

    

 1

17.4%

21.9%

    

 2

4.6%

7.8%

    

 3

2.9%

1.9%

   

p <0.050

 Total (n = 1.570)

829

741

    

Migration background

No migration background

Migration background

   

Wilcoxon-Mann–Whitney test

 0

72.6%

65.2%

    

 1

19.5%

18.9%

    

 2

5.8%

9.8%

    

 3

2.1%

6.1%

   

p <0.050

 Total (n = 1.570)

1.438

132

    
  1. n.s. = not significant