Research Article

The Association between Patient-Reported Pain and Doctors’ Language Proficiency in Clinical Practice

Table 1

Characteristics of the respondents.

Finnish speakers
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Swedish speakers
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Gender
 M/F ()80/30325/54
 M/F (%)21/7932/68
Age, yrs (mean), M/F46.0/43.056.0/49.8
Annual income (%)
 0–20 00044.154.2
 20 001–30 00032.730.6
 >30 00023.115.3
Education, yrs (mean), M/F13.4/14.212.2/13.2
BMI (mean kg/m2), M/F28.0/25.92.6/26.6