| Confidence to initiate lifestyle or conservative measures | Confidence to prescribe medications for FI | Self-rated knowledge of surgical procedures for FI | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Very poor or poor | Reasonable or very good | OR (95% CI) | Very poor or poor | Reasonable or very good | OR (95% CI) | Very poor or poor | Reasonable or very good | OR (95% CI) | |
| Practice location | |||||||||
| Metropolitan | 240 (65.6%) | 402 (58.4%) | 357 (64.3%) | 286 (57.1%) | 386 (63.7%) | 252 (57.1%) | |||
| Regional or remote | 126 (34.4%) | 287 (41.7%) | 1.36 (1.04 to1.77)a | 198 (35.7%) | 215 (42.9%) | 1.36 (1.06 to 1.74)a | 220 (36.3%) | 189 (42.9%) | 1.32 (1.02 to 1.69)a |
| Years in clinical practice | |||||||||
| ≤15 years | 160 (58.8%) | 258 (50.3%) | 242 (57.9%) | 176 (48.0%) | 258 (57.1%) | 157 (47.7%) | |||
| >15 years | 112 (41.2%) | 255 (49.7%) | 1.41 (1.05 to 1.90)a | 176 (42.1%) | 191 (52.0%) | 1.49 (1.13 to 1.98)b | 194 (42.9%) | 172 (52.3%) | 1.46 (1.10 to 1.94)b |
| Special clinical interest | |||||||||
| None | 95 (25.1%) | 135 (18.5%) | 0.68 (0.50 to 0.91)a | 123 (21.4%) | 107 (20.0%) | 0.91 (0.68 to 1.22) | 140 (22.3%) | 88 (18.8%) | 0.81 (0.60 to1.09) |
| Women’s health | 224 (59.1%) | 484 (66.3%) | 1.36 (1.05 to 1.76)a | 370 (64.5%) | 339 (63.3%) | 0.95 (0.74 to 1.21) | 391 (62.2%) | 314 (67.0%) | 1.23 (0.96 to 1.58) |
| Antenatal care | 126 (33.3%) | 233 (31.9%) | 0.94 (0.72 to 1.23) | 193 (33.6%) | 166 (31.0%) | 0.89 (0.69 to 1.14) | 203 (32.3%) | 150 (32.0%) | 0.99 (0.76 to 1.27) |
| Dermatology | 59 (15.6%) | 148 (20.3%) | 1.38 (0.99 to 1.92) | 98 (17.1%) | 109 (20.3%) | 1.24 (0.92 to 1.68) | 112 (17.8%) | 93 (19.8%) | 1.14 (0.84 to 1.55) |
| Aged care | 40 (10.6%) | 138 (18.9%) | 1.98 (1.36 to 2.88)c | 74 (12.9%) | 104 (19.4%) | 1.63 (1.18 to 2.25)b | 91 (14.5%) | 85 (18.1%) | 1.31 (0.95 to 1.81) |
| Paediatrics | 131 (34.6%) | 262 (35.9%) | 1.06 (0.82 to 1.37) | 216 (37.6%) | 178 (33.2%) | 0.82 (0.64 to 1.05) | 217 (34.5%) | 175 (37.3%) | 1.13 (0.88 to 1.45) |
| Clinical exposure (percentage of workload comprising patients with FI) | |||||||||
| <5% | 403 (92.2%) | 711 (86.3%) | 597 (92.1%) | 519 (84.4%) | 657 (92.2%) | 449 (83.8%) | |||
| ≥5% | 34 (7.8%) | 113 (13.7%) | 1.88 (1.26 to 2.82)b | 51 (7.9%) | 96 (15.6%) | 2.17 (1.51 to 3.10)c | 56 (7.9%) | 87 (16.2%) | 2.27 (1.59 to 3.25)c |
| Training or education in FI management | |||||||||
| None or small amount | 418 (96.5%) | 728 (88.5%) | 619 (96.4%) | 529 (85.9%) | 681 (96.1%) | 454 (84.9%) | |||
| Moderate or large amount | 15 (3.5%) | 95 (11.5%) | 3.64 (2.08 to 6.35)c | 23 (3.6%) | 87 (14.1%) | 4.43 (2.76 to 7.11)c | 28 (4.0%) | 81 (15.1%) | 4.34 (2.78 to 6.78)c |
a P<0.05; b P<0.01; c P<0.001. FI = faecal incontinence.