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Table 1 Participant attributes (N = 212)

From: Attitudes of Japanese physicians not specializing in care toward people living with HIV and their care

Age group

20s/30s: 27 (12.7%)

40s: 38 (17.9%)

50s: 77 (36.3%)

≥ 60s: 70 (33.0%)

Sex

Male: 171 (80.7%) Female: 41 (19.3%)

Medical department*

Internal medicine: 85 (40.1%)

Surgery: 49 (23.1%)

Others: 78 (36.8%)

Work type

Full-time physician: 147 (69.3%)

Part-time physician: 28 (13.2%)

Trainee doctor: 3 (1.4%)

Practitioner: 34 (16.0%)

No. of beds at the affiliated medical institution

< 20 beds: 69 (32.5%) ≥ 20 beds: 143 (67.5%)

HIV treatment experience

Yes: 59 (27.8%) No: 153 (72.2%)

  1. *Medical department types: internal medicine (including respiratory medicine, neurology, and palliative care), surgery (including plastic surgery), and others (e.g., pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, dermatology, urology, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, and anesthesiology)
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