Research Article
The Association between Patient-Reported Pain and Doctors’ Language Proficiency in Clinical Practice
Table 1
Characteristics of the respondents.
| | Finnish speakers () | Swedish speakers () |
| Gender | | | M/F () | 80/303 | 25/54 | M/F (%) | 21/79 | 32/68 | Age, yrs (mean), M/F | 46.0/43.0 | 56.0/49.8 | Annual income (%) | | | 0–20 000 | 44.1 | 54.2 | 20 001–30 000 | 32.7 | 30.6 | >30 000 | 23.1 | 15.3 | Education, yrs (mean), M/F | 13.4/14.2 | 12.2/13.2 | BMI (mean kg/m2), M/F | 28.0/25.9 | 2.6/26.6 |
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