General practitioners can evaluate the material, social and health dimensions of patient social status.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify which physician and patient characteristics are associated with physicians' estimation of their patient social status.

Design

Cross-sectional multicentric survey.

Setting

Fourty-seven primary care private offices in Western Switzerland.

Participants

Random sample of 2030 patients ≥ 16, who encountered a general practitioner (GP) between September 2010 and February 2011.

Main measures

Primary outcome

patient social status perceived by GPs, using the MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status, ranging from the bottom (0) to the top (10) of the social scale.Secondary outcome: Difference between GP's evaluation and patient's own evaluation of their social status. Potential patient correlates: material and social deprivation usi

SUBMITTER: Chatelard S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3893170 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature