Table 2.
Characteristics of respondents
| General practitioners (N = 88) |
Gynaecologistsa (N = 35) |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | N (%) | ||
| Gender | |||
| Man | 31 (35.2) | 17 (50.0) | 0.20† |
| Woman | 57 (64.8) | 17 (50.0) | |
| Age: mean (SDb) | 55.8 (9.0) | 59.3 (1.2) | |
| Geographical area of practice | |||
| Urban | 23 (26.1) | 20 (58.8) | 0.0008† |
| Semi-rural | 43 (48.9) | 13 (38.2) | |
| Rural | 22 (25.0) | 1 (2.9) | |
| Fixed practice | |||
| Yes | 85 (96.6) | 32 (94.1) | |
| No | 3 (3.4) | 2 (5.98) | |
| Duration (yrs) of fixed practice: mean (SDb) | 21.4 (10.5) | 25.5 (0.7) | |
| Number of patients seen per day | |||
| Up to 15 patients | 9 (10.2) | 5 (14.7) | |
| Between 16 and 25 patients | 53 (60.2) | 22 (64.7) | |
| Over 25 patients | 26 (29.5) | 7 (20.6) | |
| UCCcscreening by cervical smear | |||
| Oneself | 67 (76.1) | 34 (100.0) | |
| Medical laboratory | 9 (10.2) | ||
| Gynaecologists | 12 (13.6) | ||
| Type of smear practised | |||
| Pap smear | 22 (31.9) | 6 (17.6) | 0.19† |
| Liquid-based cytology | 34 (49.3) | 23 (67.6) | |
| According to each sample | 13 (18.8) | 5 (14.7) | |
a One of the gynaecologists responded only to the pairwise choices, leading to one missing value for each variable in this table for these practitioners
b Standard Deviation
c Uterine Cervical Cancer
† Overall chi-square test