Research Article
The Phenomena of Naturopathic Practitioner: Predictors of a High Patient Throughput
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of participants and nonparticipants.
| | Characteristics# | Responder ( = 262) | Nonresponder ( = 60) |
| | Gender; (%) | | | | male | 48 (18.3%) | 10 (16.7%) | | female | 211 (80.5%) | 45 (75.0%) | | Age, years; mean (SD) | 53 (9.5) | 57.8 (9.7) | | Period of employment; (%) | | | | <5 years | 42 (16.0%) | 2 (3.3%) | | 5 and 10 years | 65 (24.8%) | 18 (29.9%) | | 11 and 20 years | 81 (30.9%) | 15 (25.1%) | | >20 years | 71 (27.1%) | 16 (26.8%) | | Patient contact per week; mean (SD) | 20.4 (20.3) | | | Average time of contact per patient, minutes; mean (SD) | 60.3 (22.6) | | | Overall time of direct contact with patients per week, hours; mean (SD) | 17.2 (11.7) | | | Average hours of communication per week with the patients; mean (SD) | 3.4 (3.4) | | | Average time of practice activities per week; mean (SD) | 25.4 (15.2) | | | Average time of administrative tasks per week; mean (SD) | 4.8 (4.3) | | | Location of practice, (%) | | | | Rural | 123 (51.1%) | | | Urban | 134 (46.9%) | |
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varies due to missing values; SD: standard deviation.
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