Table 3.

Confidence of health professionals in explaining the rationale behind the second measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination. Figures are numbers (percentage of professional group)

	Very confident, no trouble explaining	Fairly confident, some points not entirely clear	Not particularly confident, some difficulty explaining	Not at all confident, policy difficult to understand
General practitioners (n=158)	73 (46)	73 (46)	12 (8)	0 (0)
Health visitors (n=140)	86 (61)	44 (31)	10 (7)	0 (0)
Practice nurses (n=164)	66 (40)	86 (52)	11 (7)	1 (1)
Total (n=462)	225 (49)	203 (44)	33 (7)	1 (<1)