Personal Health Practices and Patient Counseling of German Physicians in Private Practice

Table 3

German physicians’ eating, drinking, and smoking habits.

	Male (%); (𝑛 = 223–242)	Female (%); (𝑛 = 150–159)	Total (%); (𝑛 = 373–401)	𝑃mf
Diet
Salad, raw vegetables				0.009
(More than) once a day	58.0	70.7	63.0
(More than) once a week	39.4	26.0	34.0
<once a week	2.7	3.3	2.9
Fresh fruit				0.001
(More than) once a day	63.7	82.7	71.3
(More than) once a week	31.8	15.3	25.2
<once a week	4.5	2.0	3.5
Drinking
Coffee/black tea				0.471
(More than) once a day	93.4	90.6	92.3
(More than) once a week	3.7	3.1	3.4
(More than) once a month	0.8	1.9	1.2
(Almost) never	2.1	4.4	3.0
Beer				0.000
(More than) once a day	17.9	1.9	11.6
(More than) once a week	37.9	10.8	27.1
(More than) once a month	22.5	29.1	25.1
(Almost) never	21.7	58.2	36.2
Wine				0.259
(More than) once a day	19.6	11.3	16.3
(More than) once a week	50.8	52.2	51.4
(More than) once a month	20.4	27.7	23.3
(Almost) never	9.2	8.8	9.0
Hard liquor				0.000
(More than) once a day	1.2	0.0	0.8
(More than) once a week	12.4	4.4	9.3
(More than) once a month	40.2	28.5	35.6
(Almost) never	46.1	67.1	54.4
Fruit and vegetable juice				0.004
(More than) once a day	58.1	39.2	50.6
(More than) once a week	27.4	32.3	29.3
(More than) once a month	9.5	15.8	12.0
(Almost) never	5.0	12.7	8.0
Water				0.049
(More than) once a day	92.1	92.4	92.2
(More than) once a week	5.8	7.0	6.3
(More than) once a month	1.7	0.0	1.0
(Almost) never	0.4	0.6	0.5
Smoking
Smoker	21.8	13.2	18.3	0.039
Former smoker	37.9	30.3	34.7
Never smoked	40.4	55.9	46.7

𝑃_mf describes statistical significance between m: male and f: female.