Analysis of health care and actual needs of patients with psoriasis: a survey on the Italian population

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Distribution of social and demographic variables in the three Italian areas (North, Centre and South)

	North		Centre		South		p
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Marital status (total no. cases 1954)
Never married	203	28.5	194	31.5	162	25.9	0.09
Married	510	71.5	422	68.5	463	74.1
Education (total no. cases 1947)
No education	17	2.4	7	1.1	28	4.5	0.0006
Primary school	105	14.7	73	11.7	124	19.8
Junior high school	175	24.6	154	25.1	140	22.4
High school	301	42.2	286	46.5	244	39.1
University	115	16.1	96	15.6	82	14.2
Occupational status (total no. cases 1954)
Manual worker	128	18.0	97	15.8	97	15.5	< 0.0001
Office worker	150	21.0	149	24.2	132	21.1
Professional	165	23.1	122	19.8	114	18.2
Unemployed	17	2.4	32	5.2	68	11.0
Houseworker	62	8.7	57	9.2	54	8.6
Retired	118	16.6	102	16.6	77	12.3
Other	73	10.2	57	9.2	83	13.3
Working days lost (total no. cases 1235)
1–7	205	46.6	136	34.6	176	43.8	0.002
8–14	82	18.6	85	21.6	95	23.6
15–21	35	8.0	42	10.7	41	10.2
22–28	16	3.6	19	4.8	16	4.0
29–35	32	7.3	59	15.1	29	7.2
> 35	70	15.9	52	13.2	45	11.2

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