Once is rarely enough: can social prescribing facilitate adherence to non-clinical community and voluntary sector health services? Empirical evidence from Germany

Table 2 Summary statistics

N = 1734	With social prescription (N = 622)				Self-referral (N = 1112)				Difference
Variable	Mean	SD	Min	Max	Mean	SD	Min	Max
Male (in %)	0.30	0.46	0	1	0.30	0.46	0	1	0
Age (in years)	57.06	14.78	18	98	57.21	16.06	18	96	0.15
Distance (in km)	3.33	3.50	0.03	23.89	3.37	3.43	0.17	23.57	0.04
Visit due to overweight (in %)	0.48	0.50	0	1	0.33	0.47	0	1	0.15***
Visit due to psychological concern (in %)	0.05	0.22	0	1	0.05	0.22	0	1	0

This table presents the summary statistics, grouped by patients with social prescription (left part) and without social prescription, i.e. who self-referred to the service (right part). Two-sample t-tests for continuous variables and chi²-tests for binary variables were used to compare the two groups
All the p-values have been replaced by stars and categorised as follows. ***: p < 0.01; **: p < 0.05; *: p < 0.10

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