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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: Effectiveness of a web-based intervention for injured claimants: a randomized controlled trial

  

All (n = 176)

C (n = 88)

I (n = 88)

P

  

M (SD) or%

M (SD) or%

M (SD) or%

 

Age

 

48.6 (14.7)

48.3 (14.5)

48.9 (15.0)

0.77

Gender

Male

53.4

56.8

50.0

0.37

Country of birth

The Netherlands

96.0

95.5

96.6

0.70

Work

Employer

65.3

72.7

58.0

0.10

 

Self-employed

13.1

9.1

17.0

 
 

Unemployed

21.6

18.2

25.0

 

Education

Lower

22.2

22.3

23.0

0.81

 

Middle

55.1

56.5

41.4

 
 

Higher

22.7

21.2

35.6

 

Time since injury

11.9 (7.2)

12.0 (7.4)

11.8 (7.2)

0.89

Traffic participant

Motorized

71.0

70.5

71.6

0.87

Blaming offender

Not at all – a little

12.0

15.3

9.2

0.67

 

Neutral

7.4

5.9

8.0

 
 

Quite – very much

80.7

78.8

82.7

 

Injured body part

Shoulder, arm, hand

50.6

53.4

47.7

0.45

 

Head or neck

50.0

48.9

51.1

0.76

 

Hip, leg, foot

49.4

53.4

45.5

0.29

 

Trunk or back

30.1

25.0

35.2

0.14

Hospitalization

 

42.0

45.5

38.6

0.36

Number of days in hospital

 

9.3 (11.0)

8.0 (9.3)

10.9 (12.6)

0.26

Whiplash injury

31.8

28.4

35.2

0.33

Claims settlement

Korevaar Van Dijk

44.9

46.6

43.2

0.83

office

Hofmans

46.0

45.5

46.6

 
 

Kloppenburg

9.1

8.0

10.2

 
  1. C, control group; I, intervention group; M, mean; SD, standard deviation. The P value indicates whether the participant characteristics differ between groups.