Shared decision-making in physiotherapy: a cross-sectional study of patient involvement factors and issues in Japan

Table 5 Results of the correlation matrix among the independent variables

Variable	Education		Environment		FAC		Preferred role		SDM-Q-9
Variable	coefficient	p	coefficient	p	coefficient	p	coefficient	p	coefficient	p
Age	− 0.35 ^a	< 0.001	− 0.10^a	0.133	− 0.02^a	0.730	− 0.03^a	0.692	− 0.08^a	0.231
Education			0.41^a	< 0.001	0.12 ^a	0.071	0.04^a	0.456	0.22^a	0.001
Environment ^c					0.27 ^b	< 0.001	0.05 ^b	0.506	0.27^a	< 0.001
FAC^d							− 0.01^b	0.973	0.10^a	0.158
Preferred role^e									0.05 ^a	0.453

Bold typeface shows significant results on a level of p < 0.05
^aSpearman’s rank correlation coefficient
^bPhi coefficient
^cEnvironment; 0 = hospital, 1 = community
^dFAC; 0 = level < 4, 1 = level ≥ 4
^ePreferred role; 0 = passive, 1 = active/collaborative
FAC Functional Ambulation Categories, SDM-Q-9 Nine-item Shared Decision-Making Questionnaire

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