Description of the Study Sample of Patients Who Completed the Portable Digital Assistant Survey (n = 264)
| Type of Site | n (%) |
|---|---|
| Community-based | 68 (24) |
| Family medicine residency | 189 (67) |
| Underserved | 27 (10) |
| Patients’ sex | |
| Male | 63 (22) |
| Female | 221 (78) |
| Patients’ race | |
| White | 216 (76) |
| Black | 65 (23) |
| Other | 3 (1) |
| Patients’ age (years) | |
| Mean | 44.3 |
| SD | 17.0 |
| Range | 18–88 |
| Patients’ insurance status | |
| Private only | 89 (31) |
| Medicaid only | 74 (26) |
| Free/self pay/sliding scale | 64 (23) |
| Medicare only | 25 (9) |
| Medicare/private | 17 (6) |
| Medicaid/Medicare | 15 (5) |
| Patients’ highest level of education (years) | |
| 0–8 | 8 (3) |
| 9–11 | 23 (8) |
| High school graduate | 91 (32) |
| Technical school graduate | 22 (8) |
| 13–14 | 86 (30) |
| 15–16 | 42 (15) |
| 17–18 | 12 (4) |
| Physicians’ sex | |
| Male | 206 (73) |
| Female | 78 (27) |
| Patient-physician gender pair | |
| Female patient/male physician | 152 (54) |
| Female patient/female physician | 69 (24) |
| Male patient/male physician | 54 (19) |
| Male patient/female physician | 9 (3) |