Table 3. Statistical analysis.

		Correct answers (%)				I Don’t know (%)
		All questions	category			All questions	category
			1	2	3		1	2	3
Sex	male	55	54	58	51	21	21	23	22
	female	58	47	69	63	21	28	20	9
	p-value	0.87	0.27	0.12	0.17	0.26	0.1	0.62	0.23
Board certification	neurology	61	55	65	64	19	22	19	10
	neurology & psychiatry	53	48	60	49	23	25	23	22
	p-value	0.27	0.31	0.67	0.83	0.86	0.74	0.97	0.08
Period of board certification	<15 years	56	47	63	62	22	25	23	13
	≥15 years	58	55	64	53	20	23	20	17
	p-value	0.47	0.43	0.69	0.26	0.35	0.5	0.42	0.45
Period in private practice	<10 years	57	51	63	59	23	26	23	17
	≥10 years	56	51	62	52	20	22	20	16
	p-value	0.9	0.9	0.97	0.4	0.15	0.22	0.19	0.63
Treated MS patients per quarter*	<10	42	33	51	47	41	45	40	33
	10–100	59	52	66	60	14	16	14	9
	>100	76	80	76	65	3	3	5	0
	p-value	0.001	<0.001	0.08	0.35	<0.001	<0.001	0.001	0.01
Counseling of female patients about pregnancy related topics*	extensively	69	68	75	57	8	10	7	4
	to a certain degree	53	42	59	64	24	27	24	14
	not at all	11	14	13	0	84	79	83	100
	p-value	<0.001	<0.001	0.001	0.004	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Counseling of male patients about pregnancy related topics *	extensively	71	73	73	63	8	9	8	3
	to a certain degree	57	48	66	60	18	22	18	10
	not at all	18	18	19	17	73	69	72	83
	p-value	<0.001	<0.001	0.003	0.03	0.001	0.001	0.001	<0.001
Relevance of pregnancy aspects in MS	very/moderately relevant	62	57	69	59	15	17	15	10
	little/not relevant	36	28	41	46	46	50	46	38
	p-value	0.002	0.002	0.006	0.26	0.001	0.001	0.004	0.014

*Kruskal-Wallis-test; for further analysis Man-Whitney-U-test was used.