The Relationship between Family Doctor Contract Services Policy and Perceived Participation in Primary Health Care among Chronic Disease Patients in China: The Mediating Role of the Patient Trust

Table 3

Regression analysis of the mediating effect of patient’s trust on the relationship between FD contract service and patient’s perceived participation.

Variables	Model I (patient’s perceived participation)			Model II (patient’s trust)			Model III (patient’s perceived participation)
	B	β	t	B	β	t	B	β	t
Control variables
Gender	0.785	0.107	3.094	0.003	0.004	0.115	0.770	0.105	3.507
Age	−0.010	−0.002	−0.060	0.036	0.073	2.002	−0.177	−0.038	−1.224
Marital status	0.284	0.034	0.988	0.029	0.032	0.915	0.152	0.018	0.611
Employment status	0.095	0.013	0.368	0.023	0.031	0.832	−0.013	−0.002	−0.057
Education level	0.096	0.024	0.662	−0.011	−0.025	−0.685	0.145	0.036	1.161
Number of chronic diseases	0.112	0.028	0.797	0.020	0.045	1.304	0.020	0.005	0.166
Number of annual primary care visits per patient	0.686	0.102	3.015	0.042	0.058	1.693	0.493	0.073	2.498
Independent variable
FD contract service	1.270	0.183	5.386	0.112	0.150	4.376	0.753	0.109	3.647
Mediating variable
Patient’s trust							4.615	0.496	16.744
R^2	0.061				0.041			0.297
Adjust-R^2	0.052				0.032			0.289
F	6.817				4.469			39.231

FD, family doctor; B, unstandardized coefficients; β, standardized coefficients. ; ; .