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Table 1 Characteristics of participants (general practitioners) in the WEAVE trial and training

From: Training Australian general practitioners to counsel women experiencing intimate partner abuse (WEAVE): a pre-post training analysis

  

Group Characteristics

Frequencies (%)

Group differences

 
 

Total (n = 52)

Comparison

(n = 27)

Intervention

(n = 25)

(p. value)

Australia (a)

Urban (b)

37 (71.2)

19 (70.4)

18 (72.0)

0.897

89.3

Female

32 (61.5)

18 (66.7)

14 (56.0)

0.430

39.4

Age, yrs. M (SD)

48.1 (8.1)

46.9 (7.7)

49.3 (8.4)

0.312

49.3

Graduated in Australia (yes)

37 (80.4)

18 (78.3)

19 (82.6)

0.138

74.3 (d)

Time since graduation, yrs. M (SD)

23.5 (8.4)

22.3 (8.3)

24.6 (8.6)

0.371

 

GP experience, yrs. M (SD)

17.6 (7.9)

16.8 (7.3)

18.4 (8.5)

0.133

 

Works in group practice

50 (96.2)

27 (100.0)

23 (92.0)

0.134

87.9

Clinical practice, hrs per week M (SD)

33.6 (12.1)

30 (12.1)

36.6 (11.6)

0.088

38.3

Mental health training (yes)

15 (42.9)

7 (38.9)

8 (47.1)

0.482

 

IPA education, hrs

     

<1

19 (42.2)

8 (36.4)

11 (47.8)

  

1–2

5 (11.1)

4 (18.2)

1 (4.4)

  

3–5

14 (31.1)

8 (36.4)

6 (26.1)

  

>6

7 (15.6)

2 (9.1)

5 (21.8)

0.281

 
  1. Notes: IPA = Intimate Partner Abuse; (a) 2009 AIHW Medical Labour Force Survey; (b) RRMA classification 1–2; (d) BEACH 2009; data is replicated from WEAVE published trial [1]