Active Student Participation May Enhance Patient Centeredness: Patients' Assessments of the Clinical Education Ward for Integrative Medicine

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

	CEWIM	Control group (CG)
Number of patients	234	494
Exclusion criteria
Died	2	17
<18 years	0	0
<2-night stay	9	80
Readmission	4	50
Other	4	22
Sum of patients excluded	19	169
Patients contacted	215	250^1
Questionnaires returned	103 (47.9%)	94 (37.6%)
Sex (female)	65 (63.1%)	56 (60.9%)
Age (mean, SD)*	60.7 ± 17.3 years	66.6 ± 16.3 years
Private health insurance	22 (21.8%)	19 (20.4%)
Education*
Primary education	3 (2.9%)	2 (2.3%)
Lower secondary education	12 (11.8%)	14 (16.3%)
Lower sec. ed. + apprenticeship	30 (29.4%)	33 (38.4%)
Lower sec. ed. + postsecondary education	19 (18.6%)	23 (26.7%)
Upper secondary education	17 (16.7%)	4 (4.7%)
Tertiary education (university)	21 (20.6%)	10 (11.6%)
Duration of disease
6–12 months	21 (32.3%)	16 (29.1%)
1–3 years	7 (10.8%)	13 (23.6%)
3–5 years	9 (13.8%)	5 (9.1%)
>5 years	28 (43.1%)	21 (38.2%)
AM important for choice of hospital*
Yes, very much	55 (55.0%)	24 (29.6%)
Yes, somewhat	20 (20.0%)	16 (44.4%)
No	25 (25.0%)	41 (50.6%)
Health status
Poor	20 (19.8%)	15 (16.5%)
Moderate	50 (49.5%)	44 (48.4%)
Good	21 (20.8%)	29 (31.9%)
Very good	10 (9.9%)	2 (2.2%)
Excellent	0 (0%)	1 (1.1%)
Number of nonphysician therapies obtained^*2
No	41 (40.2%)	50 (59.5%)
1–3	45 (44.1%)	21 (25.0%)
≥4	16 (15.7%)	13 (15.5%)

1Randomly drawn from the sample of 325 patients remaining after exclusion.
²These therapies include art therapy, music therapy, clay modeling, speech therapy, therapeutic eurythmy, rhythmic embrocations, massage, physiotherapy, and psychological counseling.
*indicates a significant difference between CEWIM patients and controls; Mann-Whitney 𝑈 test, 𝑃<0.05.