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Table 1 Characteristics of primary health-care centres and providers (N = 943)

From: Assessing health-care providers’ readiness for reporting quality and patient safety indicators at primary health-care centres in Lebanon: a national cross-sectional survey

Variable

Frequency (n)

Percentage (%)a

Individual characteristics

  Gender

  

  Male

443

49.3

  Female

456

50.7

  Age

  

  <30 years

100

11.1

  30–39 years

262

29.0

  40–49 years

292

32.4

  >50 years

248

27.5

  Marital status

  

  Married

646

73.9

  Single

204

23.3

  Other

24

2.7

  Position in centre

  

  Family physicians

117

12.4

  Specialists

311

33.0

  Dentists

110

11.7

  Nurses

236

25.0

  Allied health professionals

169

17.9

  Experience in primary care

  

  Less than 1 year

21

2.2

  1–5 years

199

21.2

  6–10 years

214

22.8

  11–15 years

169

18.0

  More than 15 years

334

35.6

  Experience in current position

  

  Less than 1 year

90

9.7

  1–5 years

385

41.5

  6–10 years

211

22.8

  11–15 years

118

12.7

  More than 15 years

123

13.3

  Employment statusb

  

  Full-time

354

38.0

  Part-time

396

42.5

  Temporary/casual

181

19.4

Centre characteristics

  Governorate

  

  Beirut

136

14.4

  Mount Lebanon

229

24.3

  North

193

20.5

  Bekaa

138

14.6

  South

177

18.8

  Nabatieh

70

7.4

  Ownership type

  

  Public

206

21.8

  NGO

506

53.7

  Religious

231

24.5

  Socioeconomic status of target population

  Good

9

1.1

  Medium

461

54.8

  Medium to low

114

13.6

  Low

257

30.6

  1. aMissing data were not included in the calculation of the reported percentages
  2. bFull-time employment defined as working for 35 h or more per week; part-time employment defined as working for a fixed number of hours but less than 35 h per week; temporary/casual employment defined as not working for a fixed employment period and no fixed number of hours per week