Table 1.
Demographic and clinical background of respondents' percentages are of those answering the question rounded to the nearest whole number
| Characteristic | N (%) |
| Gender | |
| Male | 286 (82) |
| Female | 62 (18) |
| Age (years) | |
| <41 | 49 (14) |
| 41–45 | 107 (31) |
| 46–50 | 81 (23) |
| 51–55 | 48 (14) |
| 56–60 | 38 (11) |
| >60 | 26 (7) |
| Country of training | |
| UK and Ireland | 302 (86) |
| Western Europe | 17 (5) |
| Eastern Europe | 3 (1) |
| Other developed countries | 12 (3) |
| Developing countries | 15 (4) |
| Years working in neurology | |
| 3–10 | 11 (3) |
| 10–19 | 173 (50) |
| 20–29 | 106 (32) |
| 30–47 | 54 (16) |
| Months working in psychiatry | |
| 0 | 256 (74) |
| 1–3 | 34 (10) |
| 4–6 | 29 (8) |
| 7–12 | 19 (6) |
| 13–100 | 9 (3) |
| Months working in neuropsychiatry | |
| 0 | 256 (74) |
| 1–3 | 40 (12) |
| 4–6 | 37 (11) |
| 7–150 | 13 (4) |
| Experience of conversion before medicine | |
| None | 331 (90) |
| In self | 7 (2) |
| In family member | 20 (6) |
| In friend | 9 (3) |