Table 3.
Comparison between professional groups for dependent variables
| Nursery nurses (n = 8) |
Health visitors (n = 27) |
Nurses (n = 29) |
GPs (n = 52) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consulted about infant feeding at least once a week |
8 (100%) | 27 (100%) | 9 (31.1%) a | 20 (39.2%)a |
| Confidence about giving feeding advice |
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| Very confident | 2 (25%) | 4 (14.8%) | 2 (7.1%) a | 4 (7.8%) a |
| Confident | 5 (62%) | 23 (85.2%) | 11 (39.3%) | 27 (52.9%) |
| Slightly confident | 1 (12.5%) | 0 (0%) | 13 (46.4%) | 19 (37.3%) |
| Not confident | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (7.1%) | 1 (2.0%) |
| Knowledge about risks of obesity Median (IQR) |
5.5 (4.25-6.75) | 7 (5-8) | 8 (6-9) | 9 (8-9) |
IQR = Inter Quartile Range a 1 missing value