Table 2.
GPs’ prevention practices according to the gender of patient and GP (N = 2599)
| Gender differences: Patients | Gender differences: GPs | Inter-GP variances | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male patients (N = 1259) n (%) |
Female patients (N = 1340) n (%) |
OR [95% CI]a (ref: female) |
P | Male GPs (N = 1626) n (%) |
Female GPs (N = 973) n (%) |
OR [95% CI]a (ref: male) | P | Variance between male GPs |
Variance between female GPs | P | |
| Weight management | |||||||||||
| Weight measurement | 876 (69.6) | 891 (66.5) | 1.26 [1.10–1.45] | 0.001 | 1097 (67.5) | 670 (68.9) | 1.12 [0.47–2.63] | 0.78 | 1.12 | 2.00 | 0.11 |
| Waist circumference measurement | 540 (42.9) | 510 (38.1) | 1.34 [1.08–1.66] | 0.008 | 704 (43.3) | 346 (35.6) | 1.17 [0.43–3.18] | 0.75 | 1.99 | 2.14 | 0.90 |
| Substance use | |||||||||||
| Smoking status documented | 733 (58.2) | 610 (45.5) | 1.99 [1,65-2,40] | < 10−4 | 781 (48.0) | 562 (57.8) | 2.06 [1.11–3.84] | 0.02 | 1.13 | 0.53 | 0.33 |
| Alcohol use status documented | 397 (31.5) | 243 (18.1) | 2.68 [2,15-3,35] | < 10−4 | 355 (21.8) | 285 (29.3) | 1.71 [0.76–3.86] | 0.21 | 0.63 | 1.97 | 0.055 |
| Lifestyle recommendations | |||||||||||
| Received diet adviceb | 480 (38.1) | 377 (28.1) | 1.67 [1.37–2.03] | < 10−4 | 358 (36.8) | 499 (30.7) | 1.15 [0.70–1.91] | 0.58 | 0.87 | 0.22 | 0.03 |
| Received physical activity adviceb | 323 (24.1) | 434 (34.5) | 1.80 [1,46–2.22] | < 10−4 | 310 (31.9) | 447 (27.5) | 1.13 [0.56–2.30] | 0.72 | 1.90 | 0.47 | 0.015 |
| Cardiovascular risk | |||||||||||
| Fasting blood glucose measurementc | 858 (68.2) | 848 (63.3) | 1.47 [1.20–1.80] | 2.10−4 | 1045 (64.3) | 661 (67.9) | 1.61 [1.05–2.45] | 0.03 | 0.83 | 0.00 | 10−4 |
| Cholesterol measurementc | 774 (61.5) | 705 (52.6) | 1.66 [1.36–2.01] | < 10−4 | 925 (56.9) | 554 (56.9) | 1.52 [1.01–2.28] | 0.045 | 0.71 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Gynecological cancer screening | |||||||||||
| Cervical smear date documented | – | – | – | – | 169 (10.4) | 167 (17.2) | 2.94 [1.44–5.93] | 0.004 | 1.45 | 0.38 | 0.07 |
| Mammography date documented | – | – | – | – | 300 (18.5) | 221 (22.7) | 2.14 [1.25–3.69] | 0.007 | 0.47 | 0.35 | 0.75 |
a Odds ratios adjusted for patient variables (age, body mass index, number of consultations annually, duration of GP-patient relationship in years, and educational level) and for GP variables (age, office location, mean duration of consultations in minutes, and mean number of consultations weekly), followed by their 95% confidence intervals
b within the previous three years
c within the previous five years
Reading the table: each line corresponds to the results of the analysis of the variable of interest in the first column. Columns 2 to 5 (patients’ gender differences) present the differences according to patient gender (columns 2 and 3 combine all GP genders); Columns 6 to 9 (GPs’ gender differences) present the differences according to GP gender (columns 6 and 7 combine all patient genders); and finally, the last 3 columns (inter-GP variance), present the differences in inter-physician variance between men and women GPs