Table 4 Distribution of responses by gender, work experience and specialisation to six questions regarding the diagnosis Somatisation disorder (F45.0)
Awareness of the diagnosis (N = 241) | Knowledge about the diagnostic criteria (N = 241) | Ever diagnosed in practice (N = 239) | Ever treated patient that you know had the diagnosis (N = 239) | Ever treated patient that you suspected had the diagnosis (N = 240) | Knowledge about underlying factors of the diagnosis (N = 240) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n (%)a | n (%)a | n (%)a | n (%)a | n (%)a | n (%)a | |
Gender | ||||||
Women | 101 (74.3) | 11 (8.1) | 7 (5.2) | 48 (35.6) | 98 (72.1) | 75 (55.1)* |
Men | 71 (67.6) | 6 (5.7) | 7 (6.7) | 34 (32.7) | 68 (65.4) | 40 (38.5) |
Work experience (yrs) | ||||||
0–5 | 47 (70.1) | 5 (7.5) | 2 (3.0) | 23 (34.3) | 44 (65.7) | 30 (44.8) |
6–10 | 56 (68.3) | 2 (2.4) | 2 (2.5) | 32 (39.5) | 57 (70.4) | 35 (42.7) |
11–15 | 24 (68.6) | 3 (8.6) | 1 (2.9) | 8 (22.9) | 25 (71.4) | 17 (48.6) |
16–20 | 19 (82.6) | 3 (13.0) | 5 (21.7) | 8 (34.8) | 16 (73.9) | 12 (52.2) |
>20 | 26 (76.5) | 4 (11.8) | 4 (11.8) | 11 (33.3) | 23 (67.6) | 21 (63.6) |
Specialty | ||||||
Medicine | 32 (80.0) | 3 (7.5) | 1 (2.6) | 20 (50.0) | 29 (74.4) | 19 (47.5) |
Surgical | 38 (73.1) | 6 (11.5) | 4 (7.7) | 20 (39.2) | 36 (69.2) | 24 (47.1) |
Orthopaedics | 48 (75.0) | 2 (3.1) | 3 (4.8) | 18 (28.6) | 45 (70.3) | 31 (48.4) |
Obstetrics/Gynaecology | 54 (63.5) | 6 (7.1) | 6 (7.1) | 24 (28.2) | 56 (65.9) | 41 (48.2) |