A first online intervention to increase patients’ perceived ability to act in situations of abuse in health care: reports of a Swedish pre-post study

Table 4 Background characteristics of the participants

		Participants (n = 48)^a
	Mean/median and range	n	%
Age
	mean 56.0 year ± SD 14.2 years, range 23–81 year
Sex
Female		22	49.0
Male		23	51.0
Education (years)
Primary (<10)		9	19.1
Secondary (10–12)		25	53.2
Higher (>12)		13	27.7
Subjective social status^b
	Median 6, range 1–10
Native language
Swedish		42	89.4
Other		5	10.6
Any lifetime abuse in health care^c
No		30	63.8
Yes		17	36.2

^aNot all values of ‘n’ add up to 48 due to item non-response
^bAccording to the MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status (0–10, 10 being the highest)
^cAn answer of "yes" to any one of three questions from the the Norvold Abuse Questionnaire

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