Table 2: Participant demographics (n = 191); and their association with willingness to perform screening from 25 years every 5 years with HPV testing.

 

Variable and group

Overall cohort;

Participants who answered the main research question regarding willingness to undertake new screening practice if national guidelines recommended ita

Willing to perform revised guidelines; > 4b,

Unwilling to perform revised guidelines; ≤ 4b

p-value

Age, mean (SD)               

48.1 (10.0)

47.9 (10.2)

49.0 (8.8)

0.570

 

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

Female

172 (90.1)

117 (80.1)

29 (19.9)

0.743

Role

GP

Nurse

 

95 (49.7)

96 (50.3)

 

69 (84.2)

60 (75.0)

 

13 (15.9)

20 (25.0)

 

0.174

Years since graduation, mean (SD)

Medical school

Nursing school

 

21.6 (11.6)

25.3 (11.0)

 

22.0 (11.5)

25.2 (10.8)

 

20.2 (12.0)

25.0 (11.1)

 

0.608

0.934

Country of graduation

Australia/New Zealand

United Kingdom

Other

 

155 (81.2)

16 (8.4)

20 (10.5)

 

111 (82.2)

11 (73.3)

7 (58.3)

 

24 (17.8)

4 (26.7)

5 (41.7)

 

0.102

Location of practice

Metropolitan

Regional/rural

 

122 (63.9)

69 (36.1)

 

82 (79.6)

47 (79.7)

 

21 (20.4)

12 (20.3)

 

1.000

Professional group affiliation

RANZCOG diplomat GP

Non RANZCOG diplomat GP

 

24 (25.3)

71 (74.7)

 

20 (95.2)

49 (80.3)

 

1 (4.8)

12 (19.7)

 

0.167

 

Pap nurse provider

Non Pap nurse provider

76 (79.2)

20 (20.8)

55 (82.1)

5 (38.5)

12 (17.9)

8 (61.5)

0.002

Workplace

Individual GP clinic

Group GP clinic

Group GP including gynaecologist

Community clinic

Hospital

Other

 

10 (5.2)

105 (55.0)

7 (3.7)

36 (18.9)

12 (6.3)

21 (11.0)

 

7 (77.8)

70 (77.8)

5 (100.0)

27 (81.8)

7 (77.8)

13 (81.3)

 

2 (22.2)

20 (22.2)

0 (0.0)

6 (18.2)

2 (22.2)

3 (18.8)

 

0.956

 Female patients seen by the participant as a proportion of their practice

≤ 29%

30-75%

> 75%

 

 

4 (2.1)

113 (59.5)

73 (38.4)

 

 

2 (66.7)

75 (79.0)

51 (81.0)

 

 

1 (33.3)

20 (21.1)

12 (19.1)

 

 

0.712

 

 

 

All results reported as N (%) unless otherwise specified.

aProportion who answered willingness to change screening practice question to be in accordance with the revised guidelines question may not be equivalent to the overall cohort proportion due to missing data.

bResponses were on a 7 point Likert scale which was dichotomised as ≤ 4, indicating ‘unwilling’ or ‘disagree’ and > 4, indicating ‘willing’ or ‘agree’.