Table 6.
Qualitative interview participant sample
| Number of participants | ||
|---|---|---|
| TRIAL ARM | Prescribing | 7 |
| Pathology | 7 | |
| Imaging | 5 | |
| Sex | Female | 7 |
| Male | 12 | |
| Age | ≤ 45 | 8 |
| ≥ 46 | 11 | |
| Practice size | ≤ 5 | 11 |
| ≥ 6 | 8 | |
| RRMA | RA1-2 | 10 |
| RA3-5 | 8 | |
| RA6-7 | 1 | |
| SEIFA | 1–5 | 12 |
| 6–10 | 7 | |
RRMA is the Rural, Remote and Metropolitan classification system with RA1-2 classified as Metropolitan, RA 3–4 Rural and RA 6–7 Remote
The SEIFA decile is based on the Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage and describes
the decile ranking of the participating practices, with a decile of 6–10 indicating practices of least
disadvantage and 1–5 of most disadvantage