Table 2.
Participants’ prescription, insertion, and referral patterns for intrauterine devices (IUDs) in relation to their sex and number of years in practice: N = 96.
| YEARS IN PRACTICE
|
SEX
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PATTERNS* | 0–9 N = 11 | 10–19 N = 38 | 20–29 N = 33 | 30 OR MORE N = 14 | MALE N = 42 | FEMALE N = 54 | TOTAL |
| Prescribe IUDs | |||||||
| • Yes | 10 | 34 | 26 | 9 | 31 | 48 | 79 |
| • No | 1 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 17 |
| Insert IUDs | |||||||
| • Yes | 3 | 20 | 11 | 5 | 16 | 23 | 39 |
| • No | 8 | 18 | 22 | 9 | 26 | 31 | 57 |
| Thought that access to physicians who insert IUDs was a problem | |||||||
| • Yes | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| • No | 10 | 26 | 24 | 12 | 32 | 40 | 72 |
| • Maybe | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Interested in a course on IUD insertion | |||||||
| • Yes | 4 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 18 |
| • No | 5 | 16 | 17 | 8 | 22 | 24 | 46 |
| • Maybe | 2 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 27 |
*
Totals for all patterns do not equal N value in each category owing to lack of response.