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Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of survey sample (n = 255)

From: Is the Internet a useful and relevant source for health and health care information retrieval for German cardiothoracic patients? First results from a prospective survey among 255 Patients at a German cardiothoracic surgical clinic

 

n (%)

Age (years)

 

20 – 49

26 (10,2)

50 – 64

94 (36,8)

65 – 80

132 (51,8)

> 80

3 (1,2)

Gender

 

female

69 (27)

male

186 (73)

Education

 

no school

5 (2)

8th – class

132 (52)

10th – class

65 (25,5)

A-levels

9 (3,5)

university degree

44 (17)

Profession

 

Senior citizen

182 (71)

employees and manager

30 (12)

self-employed person

10 (4)

Student

2 (0,8)

worker

3 (1,2)

unemployed

28 (11)

  1. A-levels usually refers to the completion of twelve school years, which is prerequisite for attending a university in Germany. As males are affected more extensively by cardiovascular diseases than woman, hence our study population included more than twice the number of males than females.