Table 2.

General practitioners' responses to patient recruitment items in the survey

Survey item*	n (practices)	Mean	95% CI	Median	IQR
GP intended to invite eligible patients to participate in the study	67	5.6	5.2 - 5.9	6	5 - 6.5
GP did not see eligible patients during the study period	66	2.7	2.3 - 3.1	2	1 - 3.9
GP did not recall seeing patient recruitment materials in the practice	66	3.1	2.7 - 3.6	3	1.6 - 4
GP forgot to approach eligible patients to participate in the study	67	4.4	4.0 - 4.8	5	3.3 - 6
GP approached patients to participate, but they were not interested	67	3.5	3.1 - 3.9	4	2 - 5

* Scored on a 7-point Likert scale from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (7)