Table 1.

Results from a survey among primary health professionals (n=212), including physicians, nurses, dieticians and health educators, from 26 primary health centers in Muscat, Oman regarding self-perceived team-based competences, values, team-related skills, and support in relation to age, sex, nationality and type of profession

	Perceptions
Characteristics	Competencies a	Values b	Skills c	Support d
Age	Mean Rank
⩽35 years	97.0	96.3	87.5	92.7
>35 years	109.2	103.8	111.5	110.3
P value e	0.124	0.355	0.003	0.031
Sex
Male	121.2	121.8	127.7	124.6
Female	102.8	99.2	97.8	100.6
P value e	0.137	0.071	0.016	0.058
Nationality
Omani	102.4	99.0	93.2	95.3
Non-Omani	113.8	112.0	127.4	129.9
P value e	0.232	0.182	<0.001	<0.001
Profession
Physician	122.3	117.3	118.6	114.0
Nurse	93.8	93.3	86.7	97.7
Dietitian	80.0	94.4	83.9	83.5
Health Educator	98.1	77.6	99.0	100.6
P value f	0.002	0.011	0.002	0.115

Significant results are shown in bold.

^a Competences (knowledge, skills, and being a resource person).

^b Values (responsibility, patients’ education, patients’ self management, communication, patients’ beliefs, building capacity, commitment, culture, patients’ decision, nationality).

^c Team-related skills (team-based diabetes management, part of the team, leadership, inter-professional relationship, reflection, teamwork encouragement, teamwork delivery, teamwork value, collaboration).

^d Support (time, internet, financial support, manager support, colleagues support, center infrastructure, work environment, human and technical support).

^e Mann–Whitney U test.

^f Kruskal–Wallis H test.