Table 1.
Attitudes of stakeholders in STI surveillance schemes in Wales towards perceived importance of and responsibility for investigating STI outbreaks – contrasted by efforts of identifying these outbreaks.
| Health Profession | Participation | Investigating STI outbreaks is important* | Am responsible for participating in STI outbreak investigation | Actively looked for STI outbreaks in last 12 months | ||||
| n/N | (%) | n/N | (%) | n/N | (%) | n/N | (%) | |
| Microbiologist | 8/14 | (57) | 1/8 | (13) | 5/8 | (57) | 1/7 | (14) |
| GUM † Consultant | 9/11 | (82) | 9/9 | (100) | 7/9 | (78) | 3/9 | (33) |
| CCDC † | 5/5 | (100) | 4/5 | (80) | 4/5 | (80) | 0/4 | (0) |
| CDSC-Epidemiologist† | 4/4 | (100) | 3/4 | (75) | 4/4 | (100) | 2/4 | (50) |
| Total | 26/34 | (76) | 17/26 | (65) | 19/26 | (73) | 6/24 | (25) |
* Proportion of participants who ranked investigation of STI outbreaks as important or very important as compared to: not important, or slightly important, or moderately important
† GUM = Genitourinary Medicine, CCDC = Consultant in Communicable Disease Control,
CDSC = Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre