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Table 4 Central services: direct, indirect, and total effects on beliefs and intention

From: General practitioners' beliefs about effectiveness and intentions to recommend smoking cessation services: qualitative and quantitative studies

Dependent variable

Independent variable

Effectsa

  

Direct

Indirect

Total

Intentions to recommend central services

SMC = 0.44, 95% CI: 0.36 to 0.54, p < 0.01, f 2 = 0.79.

Perceived effectiveness

.60***

.20***

.79***

 

Perceived cost-effectiveness

.29***

-

.29***

 

Sufficient personalisation

-

.36***

.36***

 

Low-attendance

-.15**

-.15***

-.30***

Perceived cost-effectiveness

SMC = 0.37, 95% CI: 0.28 to 0.47, p < 0.01.

Perceived effectiveness

.68***

-

.68***

 

Sufficient personalisation

-

.31***

.31***

 

Low-attendance

-

-.13***

-.13***

Perceived effectiveness

SMC = 0.32, 95% CI: 0.24 to 0.41, p < 0.01.

Sufficient personalisation

.46***

-

.46***

 

Low-attendance

-.18***

-

-.18***

  1. a unstandardised coefficients, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01.