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
2501
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%)
Randomly 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 test, .