Table 1.
Respondent Characteristics
| N | % | |
|---|---|---|
| Clinical Practice Setting(s) | 315 | 87.74 |
| Early Intervention | 73 | 20.3 |
| School-based | 147 | 40.9 |
| Private Practice/Outpatient Clinic | 67 | 18.7 |
| Inpatient Hospital-based | 43 | 12.0 |
| Outpatient Hospital-based | 64 | 17.8 |
| Long-term Acute Care | 6 | 1.7 |
| Home Health | 18 | 5.0 |
| Skilled Nursing Facility | 13 | 3.6 |
| College/University | 27 | 7.5 |
| Corporate Speech-Language Pathology | 7 | 1.9 |
| Retired | 9 | 2.5 |
| Other | 8 | 2.2 |
| Years in Clinical Practice | 313 | 87.18 |
| < 1 year | 25 | 8.0 |
| 1 – 5 years | 85 | 27.2 |
| 6 – 10 years | 67 | 21.4 |
| 11 – 15 years | 31 | 9.9 |
| 16 – 20 years | 17 | 5.4 |
| 21 – 25 years | 22 | 7.0 |
| 26 – 30 years | 25 | 8.0 |
| 30+ years | 41 | 13.1 |
| Have you ever provided care for a child with CLP? | 306 | 85.23 |
| Yes | 253 | 82.7 |
| No | 53 | 17.3 |
| Number of children with CLP seen over the course of your career | 243 | 67.68 |
| At least 1 | 26 | 10.7 |
| 2 – 4 | 87 | 35.8 |
| 5 – 9 | 45 | 18.5 |
| 10 – 14 | 17 | 7.0 |
| 15 – 19 | 9 | 3.7 |
| 20 – 49 | 17 | 7.0 |
| 50 – 99 | 9 | 3.7 |
| 100 – 499 | 15 | 6.2 |
| 500+ | 18 | 7.4 |
| Primary Practice Location | 315 | 87.74 |
| Rural (including Frontier & Remote) | 39 | 12.4 |
| Town | 70 | 22.2 |
| Suburb | 82 | 26.0 |
| City/Metropolitan | 124 | 39.4 |
| Knowledge of where nearest cleft team is located | 292 | 81.33 |
| Yes | 224 | 76.7 |
| No | 68 | 23.3 |
| Distance of Practice Location to Nearest Cleft/Craniofacial Team * | 224 | 100 |
| Less than 1 hour away | 113 | 50.5 |
| Approximately 1 hour away | 44 | 19.6 |
| Between 1–2 hours away | 38 | 16.9 |
| Between 2–4 hours away | 25 | 11.2 |
| Greater than 4 hours away | 4 | 1.8 |
Total Number of Survey Respondents = 359
*
Note: This question was only provided to respondents that indicated “yes” for the question related to knowledge of where the nearest cleft team is located (N=224)