Table 1 Responding primary care physicians' demographic and practice characteristics
From: Screening mammography beliefs and recommendations: a web-based survey of primary care physicians
| Primary care specialty | Family Physicians | General Internal Medicine | Obstetrics and gynaecology | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP | IM | OBG | Total | ||||||
| n = 271 (41.5%) | n = 232 (35.5%) | n = 150 (23.0%) | n = 653 | P- value | |||||
| Race/Ethnicity | |||||||||
| White | 213 (79) | 164 (71) | 120 (81) | 497 (76) | 0.002 | ||||
| AA | 8 (3) | 12 (5) | 4 (3) | 24 (4) | |||||
| Hispanic | 15 (6) | 2 (1) | 3 (2) | 20 (3) | |||||
| Asian | 30 (11) | 51 (22) | 21 (14) | 102 (16) | |||||
| Other | 5 (2) | 3 (1) | 1 (1) | 9 (1) | |||||
| Gender | |||||||||
| Male | 161 (59) | 136 (59) | 71 (47) | 368 (56) | 0.04 | ||||
| Female | 110 (41) | 96 (41) | 79 (53) | 285 (44) | |||||
| Age in years | |||||||||
| 25-44 | 103 (38) | 93 (40) | 48 (32) | 244 (37) | 0.403 | ||||
| 45-54 | 82 (30) | 71 (31) | 53 (36) | 206 (32) | |||||
| 55-64 | 71 (26) | 58 (25) | 36 (24) | 165 (25) | |||||
| 65 + | 15 (6) | 10 (4) | 12 (8) | 37 (6) | |||||
| Number of years in practice | |||||||||
| 1~9 yrs | 106 (39) | 92 (40) | 56 (37) | 254 (39) | 0.57 | ||||
| 10~20 yrs | 103 (38) | 80 (34) | 49 (33) | 232 (36) | |||||
| > = 21 yrs | 62 (23) | 60 (26) | 45 (30) | 167 (26) | |||||
| US Region | |||||||||
| North East | 52 (19) | 76 (33) | 39 (26) | 167 (26) | < 0.001 | ||||
| Mid West | 67 (25) | 55 (24) | 19 (13) | 141 (22) | |||||
| South | 63 (23) | 58 (25) | 38 (25) | 159 (24) | |||||
| West | 89 (33) | 43 (19) | 54 (36) | 186 (28) | |||||
| Percent of female patients seen per week (mean) | |||||||||
| New patients | 21% | 25% | 37% | 26% | < 0.001 | ||||
| Had a mammogram (Female physicians only) | n = 238 | ||||||||
| Yes | 77 (71) | 68 (72) | 58 (73) | 203 (72) | |||||
| No | 32 (29) | 27 (28) | 21 (27) | 80 (28) | |||||
| Personal History of breast cancer (Female physicians only) | n = 282 | ||||||||
| Yes | 7 (6) | 3 (3) | 0 (0) | 10 (4) | |||||
| No | 103 (94) | 92 (97) | 77 (100) | 272 (96) | |||||
| Family History of breast cancer | n = 472 | ||||||||
| Yes | 60 (30) | 58 (37) | 45 (38) | 163 (35) | |||||
| No | 137 (70) | 99 (63) | 73 (62) | 309 (65) | |||||
| Percent of time spent week * | |||||||||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| Patient care | 83 | 23 | 78 | 26 | 79 | 21 | 80 | 24 | |
| Teaching/research | 10 | 16 | 15 | 20 | 12 | 16 | 12 | 17 | |
| Administration | 13 | 15 | 14 | 17 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 15 | |
| Other | 2 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 3 | 13 | 4 | 12 | |
