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Table 5 Factors influencing comfort level of the clinical use of cannabis for therapeutic purposes

From: Cannabis in medicine: a national educational needs assessment among Canadian physicians

Factor

Agree*

Neutral

Disagree*

N

%

N

%

N

%

I would feel more comfortable discussing the medical use of cannabis with patients/patient family members if I had more education about it

304

71

56

13

54

13

I feel that with more education I would be better able to treat patients using medical cannabis

300

70

57

13

56

13

I would feel more comfortable authorizing medical cannabis if Health Canada offered me protection from liability

265

62

87

20

60

14

I would feel more comfortable if physicians who participated in access to CTP were required to undergo a specific training or licensing program

259

61

81

19

74

17

  1. Percentages may not add up to 100% as missing data or non-responses are not included.
  2. *Likert scale responses were collapsed to dichotomous outcomes: agree (strongly agree and agree) and disagree (strongly disagree and disagree).