Physicians’ beliefs and attitudes about Benzodiazepines: a cross-sectional study

BMC Primary Care

Table 3 PUBS scores by medical specialty

		Family physicians	Other medical specialists	Total	p-value^a
Doctors’ beliefs about BZD	Mean (1 to 5 Likert scale)	2.35	2.61	2.47	< 0.001*
Doctors’ beliefs about BZD	Std. deviation	0.04	0.05	0.56	< 0.001*
Doctors’ attitudes about BZD prescription	Mean (1 to 5 Likert scale)	2.40	2.66	2.52	< 0.001*
Doctors’ attitudes about BZD prescription	Std. deviation	0.03	0.03	0.38	< 0.001*
Doctors’ self-perception of literacy about BZD	Mean (1 to 5 Likert scale)	3.58	3.37	3.47	0.004*
Doctors’ self-perception of literacy about BZD	Std. deviation	0.04	0.06	0.67	0.004*
Doctors’ perception of self-efficacy for promoting withdrawal	Mean (1 to 5 Likert scale)	3.35	3.30	3.33	0.440
	Std. deviation	0.04	0.05	0.57	0.440

* Statistically significant (p-value < 0.05)
^a) Student’s t test for independent samples (comparisons of mean PUBS scores by type of medical speciality)

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