Improving Preclinic Preparation for Patients with Chronic Conditions in Quito, Ecuador: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 1

Patient population baseline characteristics (), Quito, Ecuador, 2011.

Characteristics	Group 1^a; ()	Group 2^b; ()	Group 3^c; ()	Group 1 = 2; value	Group 1 = 3; value	Group 2 = 3; value
General
Age (mean)	58	59	57	0.65	0.72	0.41
Gender (% male)	9	28	16	0.01	0.23	0.11
Having a regular doctor (%)	56	60	55	0.69	0.33	0.17
Comfortable with filling out a form alone (%)	76	77	77	0.97	0.88	0.85
Schooling (%)				0.34	0.98	0.35
Some primary school (PK-7)	42	47	43
Some secondary school (7–12)	41	44	37
Completed secondary school (7–12)	11	6	16
University (some/completed)	6	3	3
Self-reported health status				0.51	0.91	0.43
Poor	25	34	27
Fair	51	43	52
Good	19	16	19
Very good/excellent	5	7	4
Baseline confidence to get questions answered by MD (%)				0.72	0.24	0.12
Not confident	11	12	10
Fairly confident	30	32	22
Confident	45	43	45
Very confident	14	13	22

Usual care; ^bgroup receiving form alone; ^cgroup receiving form and assistance completing form.