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Table 5 Local 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 local services

SMC = 0.51, 95% CI: 0.43 to 0.58, p < 0.01, f 2 = 1.04.

Perceived cost-effectiveness

.73***

-

.73***

 

Perceived effectiveness

.15**

.48***

.63***

 

Sufficient personalisation

-

.24***

.24***

 

Low-attendance

-.17**

-.09***

-.26***

Perceived cost-effectiveness

SMC = 0.22, 95% CI: 0.14 to 0.31, p < 0.01.

Perceived effectiveness

.65***

-

.65***

 

Sufficient personalisation

-

.25***

.25***

 

Low-attendance

-

-.10***

-.10***

Perceived effectiveness

SMC = 0.26, 95% CI: 0.17 to 0.35, p < 0.01.

Sufficient personalisation

.38***

-

.38***

 

Low-attendance

-.15***

-

-.15***

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