| Men (n _ 318) | Women (n _ 512) | p Value | |
| No (%) | No (%) | ||
| Patient symptoms∗ | 0.14 | ||
| Group 1 | 110 (34.6) | 145 (28.3) | |
| Group 2 | 36 (11.3) | 74 (14.5) | |
| Group 3 | 172 (54.1) | 293 (57.2) | |
| Marital status | <0.01 | ||
| Single | 138 (43.4) | 160 (31.3) | |
| Married | 171 (53.8) | 288 (56.3) | |
| Divorced/separated | 2 (0.6) | 13 (2.5) | |
| Widow/er | 7 (2.2) | 51 (10.0) | |
| Occupational status | <0.01 | ||
| Employed | 137 (43.1) | 141 (27.5) | |
| Unemployed | 181 (56.9) | 371 (72.5) | |
| Level of education | 0.54 | ||
| None or few qualifications | 118 (37.1) | 233 (45.5) | |
| Primary studies | 161 (50.6) | 216 (42.1) | |
| Secondary studies | 32 (10.1) | 45 (8.7) | |
| University degree | 7 (2.2) | 18 (3.7) | |
| Age: mean (SD) | 38 (19.9) | 40.9 (19.0) | 0.04 |
| Patient’s diagnosis at the end of the visit† | 0.02 | ||
| High tract respiratory processes | 249 (78.3) | 387 (75.6) | |
| Low tract respiratory processes | 34 (10.7) | 53 (10.4) | |
| Respiratory chronic diseases | 11 (3.5) | 10 (2.0) | |
| Undefined diagnosis | 15 (4.7) | 46 (9.0) | |
| Non respiratory diagnosis | 9 (2.8) | 16 (3.1) |
∗Group 1: patients with a temperature and any of the other symptoms: cough, sore throat, dysphonia, hypersecretion, breathlessness.
Group 2: patients with breathlessness and any of the other symptoms: cough, dysphonia, sore throat and/or hypersecretion.
Group 3: the remaining patients, with no temperature or breathlessness, but with any of the other symptoms.
†High tract respiratory processes: including codes 460, 461, 463, 464, 477, 487, 3820 Wonca classification; low tract respiratory processes: including codes 466, 486 Wonca classification; respiratory chronic diseases: including codes 462, 491-493, Wonca classification.