Specialists in Family Medicine and Community, Health Center Santa Maria de, Benquerencia, Toledo, Spain

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• Original Article   
  The social and health gender differences in patients companion in the family medicine consultation
  Author(s): José Luis Turabián*, Luis Enoc Minier-Rodriguez, Sandra Moreno-Ruiz, Francis Eliant Rodriguez-Almonte, Raul Cucho-Jove and Alejandro Villarin-Castro
  
  OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to describe gender differences in patient’s companion, and their characteristics, in family medicine consultations. METHODS: A descriptive and prospective study in a family medicine office (Toledo, Spain) was carried out. For each patient and companion, the following variables were collected: age, gender, chronic illness, chief complaint, medications taken, social class, request for additional tests, kinship, social status and availability of companion. The bivariate comparisons were performed using the test of Chi squared, the Student t test, and the Mann- Whitney test. RESULTS: 104 companions to the patient in the family medicine office were obtained. Of these, 65 (62.5%) were female, and 39 (37.5%) male. In the female companions with regard to the male companions: there were 69% in the group of 40-64 years old vs. 49% (p = 0.02); were .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2529-797X.1000014

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