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Table 1 Physician Characteristics by Study Group

From: Increasing confidence and changing behaviors in primary care providers engaged in genetic counselling

Characteristic

Control (n = 61)

Intervention (n = 60)

Combined (n = 121)

P a

Age, mean (SD)

48.7 (9.8)

49.1 (10.6)

48.9 (10.1)

0.81

Years since graduation from medical school mean (SD)

21.7 (9.7)

21.3 (12.3)

21.5 (11.0)

0.86

Female, %

34.4

46.7

40.5

0.20

White race, %

67.2

70.0

68.6

0.85

Hispanic, %

4.9

8.3

6.6

0.49

Those with clinical experience managing inherited breast cancer, %

49.2

53.3

51.2

0.72

  1. aThe significance of mean differences between study groups were examined with t-tests. Differences for the categorical demographic and experience variables were examined with Fisher’s exact test. Nonsignificant differences are suggestive of successful randomization of participants to the two study arms
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