General practitioners who never perform Pap smear: the medical offer and the socio-economic context around their office could limit their involvement in cervical cancer screening

Table 5 GP and county characteristics associated with never performing CCS - Final model (N = 1013)

	OR	[95% CI]	p
GP characteristics
Male sex	3.92	[2.67–5.76]	< 0.0001
Age (Ref. > 50 years)
[40–50]	1.68	[1.18–2.38]	0.0008
≤ 40	2.21	[1.39–3.53]
No electronic medical records	1.78	[1.23–2.56]	0.002
Acupuncture (Ref. Never)
Regularly	2.95	[1.34–6.50]	0.007
Occasionally	0.49	[0.18–1.34]
Homeopathy (Ref. Never)
Regularly	2.10	[1.26–3.52]	0.02
Occasionally	1.25	[0.90–1.73]
Not taking part in health network	1.72	[1.25–2.36]	0.0008
County characteristics
Poverty rate above the national average^a	1.66	[1.09–2.54]	0.02
GPs density (unit = 1 per 10,000 inhabitants)
Slope below 9.5 GPs per 10,000 inh. ^b	0.52	[0.37–0.74]	0.0003
Slope above 9.5 GPs per 10,000 inh.	1.17	[0.92–1.48]	0.2
Gynecologists density (unit = 1 Gyn. per 100,000 women)	1.06	[1.03–1.10]	0.0003
Less than 15 min time to go to gynecologists	2.02	[1.20–3.41]	0.008

Characteristics integrated and then removed: fee regulation, other activities outside physician’s office, practice type, other CAM, pleased with the cooperation in psychology, pleased with the cooperation in psychology, good opinion towards vaccination generally, good opinion towards vaccination against HPV, suggests vaccination against HPV, trainer or internship supervisor, intensity of poverty, time to go to GPs
^anational average = 14%
^bapproximately the national average

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