Table 2: Participant
demographics (n = 191); and their association with willingness to perform
screening from 25 years every 5 years with HPV testing.
Variable and group
|
Overall cohort;
|
Participants who
answered the main research question regarding willingness to undertake new
screening practice if national guidelines recommended ita
|
||
Willing to perform
revised guidelines; > 4b,
|
Unwilling to perform
revised guidelines; ≤ 4b
|
p-value
|
||
Age,
mean (SD) |
48.1 (10.0) |
47.9 (10.2) |
49.0 (8.8) |
0.570 |
|
N (%) |
N (%) |
N (%) |
N (%) |
Female |
172 (90.1) |
117 (80.1) |
29 (19.9) |
0.743 |
Role GP Nurse |
95 (49.7) 96 (50.3) |
69 (84.2) 60 (75.0) |
13 (15.9) 20 (25.0) |
0.174 |
Years
since graduation, mean (SD) Medical school Nursing school |
21.6 (11.6) 25.3 (11.0) |
22.0 (11.5) 25.2 (10.8) |
20.2 (12.0) 25.0 (11.1) |
0.608 0.934 |
Country
of graduation Australia/New
Zealand United Kingdom Other |
155 (81.2) 16 (8.4) 20 (10.5) |
111 (82.2) 11 (73.3) 7 (58.3) |
24 (17.8) 4 (26.7) 5 (41.7) |
0.102 |
Location
of practice Metropolitan Regional/rural |
122 (63.9) 69 (36.1) |
82 (79.6) 47 (79.7) |
21 (20.4) 12 (20.3) |
1.000 |
Professional
group affiliation RANZCOG diplomat GP Non RANZCOG
diplomat GP |
24 (25.3) 71 (74.7) |
20 (95.2) 49 (80.3) |
1 (4.8) 12 (19.7) |
0.167 |
Pap nurse provider Non Pap nurse
provider |
76 (79.2) 20 (20.8) |
55 (82.1) 5 (38.5) |
12 (17.9) 8 (61.5) |
0.002 |
Workplace Individual GP
clinic Group GP clinic Group GP including
gynaecologist Community clinic Hospital Other |
10 (5.2) 105 (55.0) 7 (3.7) 36 (18.9) 12 (6.3) 21 (11.0) |
7 (77.8) 70 (77.8) 5 (100.0) 27 (81.8) 7 (77.8) 13 (81.3) |
2 (22.2) 20 (22.2) 0 (0.0) 6 (18.2) 2 (22.2) 3 (18.8) |
0.956 |
Female patients seen by the participant as a
proportion of their practice ≤ 29% 30-75% > 75% |
4 (2.1) 113 (59.5) 73 (38.4) |
2 (66.7) 75 (79.0) 51 (81.0) |
1 (33.3) 20 (21.1) 12 (19.1) |
0.712 |
All results reported
as N (%) unless otherwise specified.
aProportion
who answered willingness to change screening practice question to be in
accordance with the revised guidelines question may not be equivalent to the
overall cohort proportion due to missing data.
bResponses
were on a 7 point Likert scale which was dichotomised as ≤ 4, indicating ‘unwilling’ or ‘disagree’
and > 4, indicating ‘willing’ or ‘agree’.