Table 3.
Effects of TPB variables and individual and organisation characteristics on professionals' intention to use clinical guidelines--ordinary least squares models
| Overall model | Physicians model | Nurses model | Others model | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | B | t-test | B | t-test | B | t-test | B | t-test | ||||
| Constant | 0.84 | 2.07 | * | 1.15 | 1.26 | 0.98 | 2.03 | * | 1.96 | 1.50 | ||
| Attitude | 0.26 | 6.15 | *** | 0.24 | 3.11 | ** | 0.27 | 5.18 | *** | 0.15 | 1.16 | |
| Subjective norm | 0.34 | 7.13 | *** | 0.27 | 2.67 | ** | 0.33 | 5.71 | *** | 0.48 | 3.02 | ** |
| Perceived behaviour control | 0.34 | 5.94 | *** | 0.45 | 3.82 | *** | 0.28 | 3.99 | *** | 0.35 | 2.03 | * |
| Gender | -0.01 | -0.09 | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.38 | -0.07 | -0.12 | ||||
| Age | -0.01 | -1.62 | -0.01 | -1.19 | -0.00 | -0.54 | -0.03 | -1.84 | ||||
| Primary care | 0.9 | 0.93 | -0.40 | -2.34 | * | 0.20 | 1.74 | 0.30 | 0.97 | |||
| KLa | -0.32 | -1.89 | 0.07 | 0.16 | -0.24 | -1.14 | -0.71 | -1.63 | ||||
| NSa | -0.18 | -1.11 | 0.45 | 1.10 | -0.21 | -1.03 | -0.55 | -1.33 | ||||
| Nurse_dummyb | 0.34 | 2.70 | ** | |||||||||
| Physician_dummyb | 0.52 | 3.25 | ** | |||||||||
| n | 637 | 122 | 435 | 78 | ||||||||
| R square | 0.37 | 0.52 | 0.36 | 0.39 | ||||||||
| Adjusted R | 0.36 | 0.48 | 0.34 | 0.32 | ||||||||
| F | 37.41 | *** | 15.13 | *** | 29.73 | *** | 5.56 | *** | ||||
***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05
a Kymenlaakso (KL) and Northern-Savo (NS) hospital districts: dummy variables, with the Central-Finland hospital district (CF) as a reference group.
bThe other profession group was a reference group in the overall model.