Table 1.
Variable | Control group (n=16) | Intervention group (n=20) | Statistic | ||
Chi-square (degrees of freedom) |
F test (degrees of freedom) |
P value | |||
Physician sex (male), n (%) | 8 (50) | 5 (25) | 2.4 (1) | — | .12 |
Physician years in practice, mean (SD) | 13.44 (10.33) | 14.58 (9.51) | — | 0.118 (1,35) | .73 |
Type of practice (family medicine rather than specialty), n (%) | 6 (38) | 10 (50) | 0.6 (1) | — | .45 |
Geographic location of practice (rural rather than urban), n (%) | 0 (0) | 2 (10) | — | — | .49a |
Hospital-based practice (hospital-based rather than community-based practice), n (%) | 11 (69) | 12 (60) | 0.3 (1) | — | .59 |
Risk taking scale, mean (SD) | 17.56 (4.15) | 16.50 (5.17) | — | 0.446 (1,35) | .51 |
Stress from medical uncertainty scale, mean (SD) | 42.13 (9.86) | 42.15 (11.37) | — | 0.0001 (1,35) | .99 |
aFisher exact test.