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

Table 4

German physicians’ personal clinical preventive measures.

	Men; (%; 𝑛 = 239–243)	Women; (%; 𝑛 = 159–161)	Total; (%; 𝑛 = 398–404)	𝑃mf
Physical checkup				0.346
<1 year	32.9	32.9	32.9
1 to <2 years	21.8	19.3	20.8
2 to <3 years	8.6	8.1	8.4
3 to <4 years	7.8	3.7	6.2
4 to <5 years	5.3	10.6	7.4
≥5 years	14.8	16.8	15.6
Never	8.6	8.7	8.7
Blood pressure check				0.103
<1 year	63.1	70.8	66.2
1 to <2 years	17.0	14.3	15.9
2 to <3 years	6.2	4.3	5.5
3 to <4 years	2.1	3.7	2.7
4 to <5 years	2.1	3.1	2.5
≥5 years	5.4	3.7	4.7
Never	4.1	0.0	2.5
Breast or testicular examination (by clinician)				>0.001
<1 year	19.6	56.9	34.5
1 to <2 years	11.3	18.8	14.3
2 to <3 years	10.4	10.6	10.5
3 to <4 years	6.7	1.9	4.8
4 to <5 years	3.3	3.1	3.3
≥5 years	12.1	5.6	9.5
Never	36.7	3.1	23.3
Influenza vaccine				0.600
<1 year	55.1	46.6	51.7
1 to <2 years	11.5	14.9	12.9
2 to <3 years	2.5	2.5	2.5
3 to <4 years	1.2	1.2	1.2
4 to <5 years	1.2	1.9	1.5
≥5 years	0.8	2.5	1.5
Never	27.6	30.4	28.7
Cholesterol measurement				0.432
<1 year	42.4	31.9	38.2
1 to <2 years	21.8	23.1	22.3
2 to <3 years	7.8	8.8	8.2
3 to <4 years	5.8	5.6	5.7
4 to <5 years	2.9	5.0	3.7
≥5 years	7.0	8.8	7.7
Never	12.3	16.9	14.1
Hemoccult test				0.996
<1 year	13.8	14.5	14.1
1 to <2 years	13.0	13.2	13.1
2 to <3 years	7.5	8.2	7.8
3 to <4 years	5.0	5.7	5.3
4 to <5 years	4.6	5.7	5.0
≥5 years	6.7	6.9	6.8
Never	49.4	45.9	48.0
Mammogram	N/A
<1 year		40.7
1 to <2 years		22.2
2 to <3 years		9.3
3 to <4 years		2.5
4 to <5 years		2.5
≥5 years		3.7
Never		19.1
Papanicolaou smear	N/A
<1 year		50.0
1 to <2 years		23.8
2 to <3 years		6.9
3 to <4 years		5.6
4 to <5 years		4.4
≥5 years		6.3
Never		3.1
Working when ill (presenteeism)				0.158
Often	11.7	17.3	13.9
Sometimes	27.5	32.7	29.6
Seldom	36.7	29.0	33.6
Never	24.2	21	22.9
Personal doctor				1.000
Yes	31.7	31.7	31.7
No	68.3	68.3	68.3

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