Table 1.

Factors with the potential to affect postincisional analgesic use for canine ovariohysterectomy among 280 Canadian veterinarians: descriptive statistics and unconditional associations

	Analgesic nonusers (N = 155)			Analgesic users (N = 125)
Variable name	na	%	Mean (sb)	na	%	Mean (sb)	P
Veterinarian’s sex			—			—	0.5
Male	64	41.6		47	37.6
Female	90	58.4		78	62.4
Number of years since graduation	155	—	13.1 (8.8)	124	—	11.7 (9.4)	0.2
School of graduation			—			—	0.09
Atlantic Veterinary College	38	24.5		38	30.7
Ontario Veterinary College	53	34.1		54	43.6
Western College of Veterinary Medicine	29	18.7		17	13.7
Université de Montréal	25	16.1		10	8.0
Other	10	6.6		5	4.0
Practice type (small animal or mixed practice)			—			—	0.11
Mixed	52	33.6		31	24.8
Companion animal	103	66.4		94	75.2
Region of Canada in which practice located			—			—	0.01
Atlantic Canada	74	47.7		60	48.0
Quebec	18	11.6		5	4.0
Ontario	28	8.1		41	32.8
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta	20	12.9		10	8.0
British Columbia	15	9.7		9	7.2
Number of veterinarians in the practice	155	—	3.3 (1.9)	125	—	3.5 (2.8)	0.35
Ratio of animal health technicians (AHTs) to veterinarians			—			—	0.01
Exceeds 1 AHT per 2 veterinarians	93	61.2		57	46.0
Equal to or less than 1 AHT per 2 veterinarians	59	38.8		67	54.0
Average monthly number of surgeries, per veterinarian	155	—	14.9 (10.8)	125	—	13.0 (10.4)	0.142
Perception of the pain in the first 24 h after surgery if no analgesic were used at any time (on a scale of 1 to 10)	155	—	5.1 (1.9)	123	—	6.5 (1.6)	<0.001
Most highly rated concern from among various negative aspects (side effects; cost) of each of (on a scale of 1 to 10)
Butorphanol	151	—	4.8 (2.4)	123	—	4.1 (2.1)	0.01
Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs	154	—	4.5 (2.1)	122	—	4.1 (2.3)	0.18
Knowledge of analgesia reported to be							0.03
Adequate	67	43.8	—	70	56.9	—
Inadequate	86	56.2	—	53	43.1	—

^aFor some variables missing data meant that the total of n < N

^bStandard deviation