Table 2. Associations of demographic, socioeconomic and work variables of professionals with the level of importance of patient participation and impact of patient involvement in the prevention of SSI – São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 2021.

Variables	Importance of patient participation			Impact of the involvement in SSI prevention
	OR	CI 95%	p-value*	OR	CI 95%	p-value*
Age	0,91	[0,79; 1,04]	0,154	0,89	[0,79; 1,00]	0,060
Men	1,82	[0,28; 11,19]	0,520	2,27	[0,46; 11,58]	0,314
Professional group (physician)	0,53	[0,06; 4,52]	0,560	0,87	[0,13; 6,05]	0,884
Length of professional experience	1,06	[0,93; 1,21]	0,364	1,08	[0,96; 1,21]	0,218
Public hospital	0,42	[0,13; 1,43]	0,150	0,64	[0,20; 2,32]	0,474
Implementing a strategy for preventing SSI	0,90	[0,18; 3,51]	0,887	0,38	[0,05; 1,65]	0,246

OR: odds ratio; CI: Confidence Interval SSI: surgical site infection; *Ordinal Logistic Regression.