Table 1.

Characteristics of the responders of our three surveys.

	Third wave of survey (2019) (n = 293)	Second wave of survey (2017) (n = 254)		First wave of survey (2014) (n = 264)
	n (%)	n (%)	p value†	n (%)	p value‡
Gender			0.044		0.083
Male	166 (56.7%)	166 (65.4%)		169 (64.0%)
Female	127 (43.3%)	88 (34.6%)		95 (36.0%)
Age			0.24		0.48
Twenties	17 (5.8%)	6 (2.4%)		7 (2.7%)
Thirties	71 (24.2%)	57 (22.4%)		65 (24.6%)
Forties	55 (18.8%)	52 (20.5%)		52 (19.7%)
Fifties	63 (21.5%)	58 (22.8%)		67 (25.4%)
Sixties	45 (15.4%)	51 (20.1%)		40 (15.2%)
Over seventy	42 (14.3%)	30 (11.8%)		33 (12.5%)
Work status			0.33		0.53
Employed as a doctor	189 (64.5%)	148 (58.3%)		160 (60.6%)
Owner of a clinic or hospital	89 (30.4%)	91 (35.8%)		92 (34.8%)
Other	15 (5.1%)	15 (5.9%)		11 (4.2%)
Medical specialty§	354	293	0.63	308	0.77
General obstetrics and gynecology	228 (64.4%)	200 (68.3%)		194 (73.5%)
Perinatal medicine	45 (12.7%)	29 (9.9%)		36 (24.6%)
Gynecologic oncology	40 (11.3%)	37 (12.6%)		45 (19.7%)
Reproductive and infertility medicine	21 (5.9%)	14 (4.8%)		18 (6.8%)
Other	20 (5.7%)	13 (4.4%)		15 (5.7%)
Experienced in examining a patient with cervical cancer			0.42		1.00
Yes	291 (99.3%)	250 (98.4%)		263 (99.6%)
No	2 (0.7%)	4 (1.6%)		1 (0.4%)
Experienced the death of a patient with cervical cancer			0.58		0.37
Yes	264 (90.1%)	225 (88.6%)		244 (92.4%)
No	29 (9.9%)	29 (11.4%)		20 (7.6%)
Have a child			0.53		0.76
Yes	227 (77.5%)	203 (79.9%)		208 (78.8%)
No	66 (22.5%)	51 (20.1%)		56 (21.2%)
Have a daughter aged 12 to 16			1.00		0.56
Yes	25 (8.5%)	22 (8.7%)		27 (10.2%)
No	268 (91.5%)	232 (91.3%)		237 (89.8%)

† p value from the chi-squared test or Fisher’s exact test – between our second and third wave of survey.

‡ p value from the chi-squared test or Fisher’s exact test – between our first and third wave of survey.

§ Multiple answers permitted.

Responders with no answer were excluded from our surveys.