Attitudes of health care professionals towards interprofessional teamwork in Ashanti Region, Ghana

BMC Medical Education

Table 4 Comparison of overall ATHCTS mean scores by demographic characteristics

Variable	Attitude score (Mean ± SD)	Statistic^a	P-value
Age group (years)		10.567	0.014
20 – 24	57.82 ± 5.79
25 – 29	57.56 ± 6.62
30 – 34	57.46 ± 6.37
35 +	61.28 ± 5.68
Gender		478,360.39	0.405*
Female	58.35 ± 6.40
Male	57.92 ± 6.12
Facility		6.575	0.037
Agogo Presby Hospital	57.85 ± 6.46
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital	57.68 ± 6.08
PEPFAR-assisted district hospitals	60.19 ± 6.66
Health profession cadre		14.798	0.005
Medical	56.83 ± 6.31
Laboratory	56.81 ± 7.02
Nursing/Midwifery	59.10 ± 5.26
Pharmacy	59 ± 7.10
Physician Assistantship	63 ± 6.93
Professional experience		405,591.72	0.034*
New trainees	57.63 ± 6.10
Old trainees	59.46 ± 6.55
All trainees	58.15 ± 6.28	(57.42, 58.88)

New provider, interns/house officers and rotation nurses/midwives; old provider, health providers with professional experience more than one year
ATHCTS Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale, PEPFAR-assisted district hospitals: Bekwai Municipal, Maternal and Child Health, Obuasi Government and Suntreso Government Hospitals
^aData presented as statistic or (95% confidence interval)
^*Mann–Whitney test, and Kruskal–Wallis’ test for the others

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