Self-Care for Common Colds by Primary Care Patients: A European Multicenter Survey on the Prevalence and Patterns of Practices—The COCO Study

Table 1

Characteristics of participants ( = 2,724).

		%
Gender, female ( = 2,654)	1,659	62.5%
Insurance status, public ( = 2,587)	2,494	96.4
Nonsmoker ( = 2,638)	2,052	77.8
Patients with ≥1 self-reported chronic condition	1,086	39.9
Hypertension	608	56
Chronic pain/arthritis	257	23.7
Heart disease	242	22.3
Diabetes	221	20.3
Asthma/chronic bronchitis	197	18.1
Depression	143	13.2
Chronic kidney disease	55	5.1
Age, mean ± SD ( = 2,644)	46.7 ± 16.8
Years of formal education, mean ± SD ( = 2,557)	12.8 ± 4.49
Number of tablets used daily, mean ± SD ( = 2,318)	2.0 ± 2.7
Patients with ≥1 tablet daily ( = 1,467)
ASA/aspirin	314	21.4
Oral contraceptive	165	11.2
Anticoagulants	80	5.5
Participating countries ( = 2,724)
Austria°	110	4
Finland^#	107	3.9
France, 3 sites^+#	325	11.9
Germany, 3 sites^+°#	385	14.1
Israel^+	123	4.5
Italy, 2 sites^#°	161	5.9
Macedonia°	364	13.4
Poland, 2 sites^+	241	8.8
Slovenia°	119	4.4
Spain^+	86	3.2
Sweden^+	98	3.6
Turkey, 5 sites^°+	605	22.2

Mixed (urban/rural); ⁺urban; ^#rural.