Patient-Related Factors Influencing Satisfaction in the Patient-Doctor Encounters at the General Outpatient Clinic of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria
Table 3
Frequency of patients visits to the GOPC, willingness to be consulted by any physician during the visit, and presence or absence of any long-standing illness.
Categories
Responses
Satisfaction with the consultation
Total
df
value
Yes
No
(%)
(%)
(%)
Frequency of patients’ visit to the General outpatient clinic over the previous 12 months
None
62 (14.4)
45 (10.5)
107 (24.9)
3.68
4
0.25
1-2
115 (26.7)
73 (17.0)
188 (43.7)
3-4
55 (12.8)
38 (8.8)
93 (21.6)
5-6
11 (2.6)
14 (3.3)
25 (5.8)
≥7
12 (2.8)
5 (1.2)
17 (4.0)
Willingness to be consulted by any physician during the visit