Table 3 Participant’s characteristics
Interview survey | ||
|---|---|---|
Category | Sex | Age |
Patient advocators | Female | 50 s |
Male | 40 s | |
Male | 40 s | |
Pharmaceutical industry | Male | 40 s |
Regulatory (medical doctor) | Male | 40 s |
Health technology assessment body | Male | 40 s |
Academia (medical doctor) | Male | 50 s |
Academia (occupational therapist) | Male | 50 s |
Web-based survey (1) | ||
Occupation | Profession | Frequency (male %) |
Clinicians | Medical doctor | 50 (74.0) |
Nurse | 51 (5.9) | |
Pharmacist | 51 (5.9) | |
Rehabilitation related | 48 (52.1) | |
Others | 55 (60.0) | |
Company employees | Development | 109 (60.6) |
Medical/marketing | 70 (74.3) | |
Others | 70 (87.1) | |
Age | 20–39 | 164 (38.4) |
40–59 | 251 (68.9) | |
Over 60 | 87 (71.3) | |
Residential area | Urban | 251(57.8) |
Rural | 251(61.0) | |
Web-based survey (2) | ||
Patients | Primary illness | Frequency (male %) |
Cancer | 251 (36.2) | |
Non-cancer | 243 (63.8) | |
Age | 20–39 | 138 (24.1) |
40–59 | 250 (46.2) | |
Over 60 | 106 (29.7) | |
Employment status | Fulltime | 216 (67.3) |
Parttime | 100 (11.6) | |
Unemployed | 178 (21.1) | |
Education | Junior high school | 17 (3.0) |
High school | 164 (29.7) | |
Junior/ career college | 119 (12.6) | |
University | 175 (47.7) | |
Graduate school | 12 (4.5) | |
Not responded | 7 (2.5) | |