Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of respondents
| CHARACTERISTIC |
PRACTITIONER TYPE, %
|
ALL PRACTITIONERS (N = 321), % | P VALUE* | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FAMILY PHYSICIANS (N = 81) | PEDIATRICIANS (N = 152) | MIDWIVES (N = 88) | |||
| Sex | |||||
| • Male | 60 | 55 | 0 | 41 | < .001 |
| Age, y | < .001 | ||||
| • ≤ 30 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 | |
| • 31–39 | 17 | 19 | 36 | 23 | |
| • 40–49 | 25 | 24 | 22 | 24 | |
| • 50–59 | 38 | 36 | 25 | 33 | |
| • ≥ 60 | 19 | 20 | 5 | 15 | |
| Years of practice | < .001 | ||||
| • < 5 | 6 | 9 | 34 | 15 | |
| • 5–10 | 13 | 18 | 27 | 19 | |
| • > 10 | 81 | 73 | 39 | 65 | |
| No. of neonates seen per month | < .001 | ||||
| • ≤ 1 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 9 | |
| • 2–5 | 64 | 5 | 43 | 30 | |
| • > 5 | 10 | 91 | 57 | 61 | |
| Highest level of NICU in hospital practice | < .001 | ||||
| • Level I | 89 | 42 | 36 | 52 | |
| • Level II | 11 | 49 | 56 | 41 | |
| • Level III | 0 | 9 | 8 | 6 | |
NICU—neonatal intensive care unit.
*
P value for χ2 tests for differences in proportions between groups.