Table 3.
Primary care providers’ perspectives on NBS and notification of results
| CHARACTERISTIC | FAMILY PHYSICIANS n (%), N = 208* |
PEDIATRICIANS n (%), N = 68* |
MIDWIVES n (%), N = 45* |
P VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Up to date on NBS | < .01† | |||
| • Strongly agree or agree | 90 (43.7) | 57 (85.1) | 35 (81.4) | |
| • Strongly disagree, disagree, or neutral | 116 (56.3) | 10 (14.7) | 8 (18.6) | |
| Important role in NBS in general | < .01† | |||
| • Strongly agree or agree | 153 (74.3) | 59 (88.1) | 44 (100.0) | |
| • Strongly disagree, disagree, or neutral | 53 (25.7) | 8 (11.9) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Important role in notification of NBS results | .07† | |||
| • Strongly agree or agree | 183 (88.4) | 56 (83.6) | 44 (97.8) | |
| • Strongly disagree, disagree, or neutral | 24 (11.6) | 11 (16.4) | 1 (2.2) | |
| Confidence regarding notification | .17† | |||
| • Extremely or very confident | 132 (63.8) | 51 (75.0) | 36 (80.0) | |
| • Moderately confident | 57 (27.5) | 14 (20.6) | 8 (17.8) | |
| • Not very or not at all confident | 18 (8.7) | 3 (4.4) | 1 (2.2) | |
| Perceived barriers to notifying within 3 d | .02‡ | |||
| • Extremely or very significant | 17 (8.2) | 7 (10.3) | 0 (0.0) | |
| • Moderately significant | 40 (19.3) | 22 (32.4) | 8 (17.8) | |
| • Not very or not at all significant | 150 (72.5) | 39 (57.4) | 37 (82.2) | |
| Perceived barriers to notify within 1 d | .01† | |||
| • Extremely or very significant | 72 (35.0) | 28 (43.1) | 9 (20.5) | |
| • Moderately significant | 65 (31.6) | 16 (24.6) | 9 (20.5) | |
| • Not very or not at all significant | 69 (33.5) | 21 (32.3) | 26 (59.1) | |
| Preference for point-of-care information§ | < .01‡ | |||
| • Written information | 44 (21.7) | 13 (19.7) | 6 (13.6) | |
| • Verbal communication with treatment centre provider | 17 (8.4) | 2 (3.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| • Both written and verbal | 120 (59.1) | 47 (71.2) | 38 (86.4) | |
| • Either written or verbal (does not matter which) | 22 (10.8) | 4 (6.1) | 0 (0.0) |
NBS—newborn screening.
*Denominators vary owing to missing data.
†
2 test.
‡Fisher exact test.
§Excluded 7 respondents who selected more than 1 response and 1 who selected “other.”