Sociodemographic characteristics and disability pensions of frequent attenders in occupational health primary care – a follow-up study in Finland

Table 1 Distribution of sociodemographic factors in different FA groups in 2015 (N = 66,386)

	non-FA n = 57,673		1yFA n = 6519		2yFA n = 1602		PFA n = 592
	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n
Male	57	32,915	50	3265	47	753	44	262
Female	43	24,758	50	3254	53	849	56	330
18–34	33	18,973	25	1609	19	307	19	111
35–44	23	13,499	24	1588	25	398	23	139
45–54	25	14,257	29	1880	30	480	32	191
55–68	19	10,944	22	1442	26	417	26	151
Occupational class
Manual	31	17,753	41	2664	46	732	52	307
Lower non-manual	31	17,766	36	2347	36	585	33	195
Upper non-manual	19	11,014	14	918	12	190	11	63
Entrepreneurs	4	2420	2	124	1	14	< 1	–
Others*	15	8720	7	466	5	81	4	25
Educational level
Basic	10	6040	10	681	10	157	11	65
Intermediate	49	28,364	56	3643	58	929	62	369
High	40	23,269	34	2195	32	516	27	158
Living alone
Alone	19	10,884	20	1286	21	332	26	154
Not alone	80	46,197	80	5180	78	1256	74	436
Missing	1	592	< 1	53	1	14	< 1	–

Frequent attendance to OH primary care was defined as the top decile of attenders (frequent attender 10%, FA10)
1yFA = Patients that were in the top decile of attenders in one of the study years (2014, 2015 or 2016)
2yFA = Patients that were in the top decile in any two study years (2014, 2015 or 2016)
pFA = Patients that were in the top decile in all three study years (2014, 2015 and 2016)
non-FA = Patients that were never in the top decile were considered as a reference group, non-frequent attenders
*Unemployed, students, pensioners, others, unknown

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