Table 1.
Response frequency
| Variables | Respondent frequencies (Percentage) (n=109) | Service providers frequencies (Percentage) (n=66) | Levene's test for equality of variances at 95%, where equal variances assumed |
| Role | (two missing) | (zero missing) | F=0.706, p=0.403 |
| Pharmacist | 90 (84%) | 55 (83%) | |
| Pharmacy technician | 7 (7 %) | 3 (4.5%) | |
| Dispensing assistant | 7 (7 %) | 7 (11%) | |
| Medicines counter assistant | 3 (3 %) | 1 (1.5%) | |
| Gender | (three missing) | (two missing) | F=0.203, p=0.653 |
| Male | 57 (54 %) | 32 (50 %) | |
| Female | 48 (45 %) | 32 (50 %) | |
| Preferred not to say | 1 (1 %) | ||
| Years of registration experience | (nine missing) | (seven missing) | F=0.730, p=0.395 |
| 0–2 | 9 (8 %) | 5 (8 %) | |
| 3–5 | 16 (15 %) | 9 (15 %) | |
| 6–8 | 12 (11 %) | 8 (14 %) | |
| 9–11 | 11 (10 %) | 8 (14 %) | |
| 12–14 | 5 (5 %) | 1 (2 %) | |
| 15–17 | 7 (7 %) | 7 (12 %) | |
| 18–20 | 2 (2 %) | 1 (2 %) | |
| >20 years | 38 (36 %) | 20 (34 %) | |
| Employer type | (two missing) | (one missing) | F=0.245, p=0.621 |
| National chain pharmacy | 51 (48 %) | 35 (54 %) | |
| Independent pharmacy | 56 (53 %) | 30 (46 %) | |
| Work contract type | (three missing) | (one missing) | F=8.904, p=0.004 |
| Full-time | 90 (85 %) | 57 (88 %) | |
| Part-time | 12 (11 %) | 7 (11 %) | |
| Locum | 3 (3 %) | 1 (2 %) | |
| Other | 1 (1 %) | 0 | |
| Location of community pharmacy | (two missing) | (one missing) | F=0.471, p=0.494 |
| Urban | 47 (44 %) | 32 (49 %) | |
| Suburban | 47 (44 %) | 26 (40 %) | |
| Rural | 13 (12 %) | 7 (11 %) | |
| Co-located within GP practice | (four missing) | (two missing) | F=4.766, p=0.031 |
| Yes | 20 (19 %) | 10 (16 %) | |
| No | 85 (81 %) | 54 (84 %) | |
| Provide a BP monitoring service | |||
| Yes | 66 (61 %) | ||
| No | 43 (39 %) |
BP, blood pressure; GP, general practitioner.