“Family doctors are also people”: a qualitative analysis of how family physicians managed competing personal and professional responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Table 1 Participant characteristics [N(%)]

	British Columbia	Newfoundland and Labrador	Nova Scotia	Ontario	Total
	N = 15	N = 12	N = 21	N = 20	N = 68
Sex/gender^a
Male/men	4 (26.7)	4 (33.3)	9 (42.9)	10 (50.0)	27 (39.7)
Female/women	11 (73.3)	8 (66.7)	12 (57.1)	10 (50.0)	41 (60.3)
Dependents
Children Elderly parents Children and elderly parents	7 (46.7) 1 (6.7) 3 (20.0)	7 (58.3) 0 (0.0) 1 (8.3)	12 (57.1) 2 (9.5) 1 (4.8)	11 (55.0) 1 (5.0) 0 (0.0)	37 (54.4) 4 (5.9) 5 (7.4)
None reported	4 (26.7)	4 (33.3)	6 (28.6)	8 (40.0)	22 (32.4)
Community size^b
Rural	0 (0)	3 (25.0)	8 (38.1)	9 (45.0)	20 (29.4)
Small urban	0 (0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	1 (5.0)	1 (1.5)
Urban	15 (100.0)	8 (66.7)	13 (61.9)	8 (40.0)	44 (64.7)
Mix	0 (0)	1 (8.3)	0 (0.0)	2 (10.0)	3 (4.4)
Remuneration model
Fee-for-service	6 (40.0)	5 (41.7)	7 (33.3)	4 (20.0)	22 (32.4)
Alternative payment plan^c	9 (60.0)	7 (58.3)	14 (66.7)	16 (80.0)	46 (67.7)
Years in practice (mean)	16.9	16.3	15.4	18.7	16.9

^aGender was asked as an open-ended question and participants frequently responded using sex-based terminology, so we reflect that here by grouping ‘Sex/gender’
^bRural < 10,000 population, small urban = 10,000–99,999 population, urban > 1,000,000 population. Mix denotes where participants work in more than one community size
^cAlternative payment plan includes all funding models outside of traditional and enhanced fee-for-service

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