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Table 1 Patient characteristics and preferences

From: Patients’ views of shared decision making in inflammatory bowel disease: a survey in China

 

Overall (percent)

Prefer to participate in SDM

Prefer not to participate

p value

Number

1118

945

173

 

Percent of all patients

 

84.5%

15.5%

 

Mean age (SD), years

33.8 (11.2)

33.5 (10.8)

35.6 (13.6)

0.021

Male gender

665 (59.5%)

577 (61.1%)

88 (50.9%)

0.012

Disease type

   

0.038

Crohn's disease

857 (76.7%)

735 (77.8%)

122 (70.5%)

 

Ulcerative disease

213 (19.1%)

168 (17.8%)

45 (26%)

 

Unclassified colitis

48 (4.3%)

42 (4.4%)

6 (3.5%)

 

Active CD or UC

245 (26.9%)

210 (25.5%)

35 (23.5%)

0.595

Duration of disease

   

0.083

0–0.5 years

103 (9.2%)

82 (8.7%)

21 (12.1%)

 

0.5–5 years

559 (50.0%)

485 (51.3%)

74 (42.8%)

 

≥ 5 years

456 (40.8%)

378 (40.0%)

78 (45.1%)

 

Education

   

0.000

Elementary school and below

34 (3%)

26 (2.8%)

8 (4.6%)

 

Junior high school

194 (17.4%)

144 (15.2%)

50 (28.9%)

 

Senior high school and technical secondary school

238 (21.3%)

198 (21.0%)

40 (23.1%)

 

Junior college

225 (20.1%)

196 (20.7%)

29 (16.8%)

 

Undergraduate

384 (34.3%)

341 (36.1%)

43 (24.9%)

 

graduate degree

43 (3.8%)

40 (4.2%)

3 (1.7%)

 

Incomea

   

0.008

 < 2000 RMB

107 (9.6%)

82 (8.7%)

25 (14.5%)

 

2000 RMB–5000 RMB

395 (35.3%)

326 (34.5%)

69 (39.9%)

 

5000 RMB–10,000 RMB

356 (31.8%)

308 (32.6%)

48 (27.7%)

 

10,000 RMB–20,000 RMB

183 (16.4%)

156 (16.5%)

27 (15.6%)

 

> 20,000 RMB

77 (6.9%)

73 (7.7%)

4 (2.3%)

 

Medical insurance

    

Basic medical insurance

804 (71.9%)

690 (73%)

114 (65.9%)

0.055

New rural cooperative medical insurance

341 (30.5%)

273 (28.9%)

68 (39.3%)

0.006

Commercial insurance

57 (5.1%)

54 (5.7%)

3 (1.7%)

0.029

None

11 (1%)

9 (1.0%)

2 (1.2%)

0.803

Has ever been hospitalized (inpatient)

1039 (92.9%)

880 (93.1%)

159 (91.9%)

0.567

Surgical history

400 (35.8%)

338 (35.8%)

62 (35.8%)

0.986

Has not discussed with doctor before surgery

63 (15.8%)

51 (15.1%)

12 (19.4%)

0.251

Medicine history

    

5-ASA

690 (61.7%)

572 (60.5%)

118 (68.2%)

0.056

Glucocorticoids

388 (34.7%)

329 (34.8%)

59 (34.1%)

0.857

Immunomodulator

618 (55.3%)

519 (54.9%)

99 (57.2%)

0.575

Biological agents

588 (52.6%)

506 (53.5%)

82 (47.4%)

0.137

Nutritional

628 (56.2%)

525 (55.6%)

103 (59.5%)

0.332

Others

120 (10.7%)

102 (10.8%)

18 (10.4%)

0.879

Has joined a self-help group

1107 (99.0%)

936 (99.0%)

171 (98.8%)

0.803

Has never learned IBD knowledge online or through WeChat

59 (5.3%)

43 (4.6%)

16 (9.2%)

0.003

Has never learned IBD knowledge through books

95 (8.5%)

65 (6.9%)

30 (17.3%)

0.000

Familiarity with SDM

   

0.016

Has never heard of it

387 (34.6%)

310 (32.8%)

77 (44.5%)

 

Knows about it but not exactly

393 (35.2%)

339 (35.9%)

54 (31.2%)

 

Knows the general meaning

292 (26.1%)

252 (26.7%)

40 (23.1%)

 

Has a thorough knowledge

18 (1.6%)

18 (1.9%)

0

 

Has participated in SDM

28 (2.5%)

26 (2.8%)

2 (1.2%)

 
  1. aThe RMB against the U. S. dollar was 6.99 on July 30th, 2020