Thinking styles and doctors' knowledge and behaviours relating to acute coronary syndromes guidelines

Table 5 Summary of correlations* relating to study hypotheses

	Faith in Intuition			Need For Cognition
ACS Knowledge and Behaviours	Ability	Favour-ability	Total	Ability	Favour-ability	Total
Q1. Awareness	0.04	-0.02	0.01	0.05	0.05	0.06
Correctly knows year of publication	p = 0.373	p = 0.445	p = 0.470	p = 0.341	p = 0.337	p = 0.323
Q2. General Knowledge	-0.18	-0.20	-0.21	0.14	0.11	0.14
Correctly knows topic coverage	p = 0.057	p = 0.047	p = 0.041	p = 0.115	p = 0.135	p = 0.117
Q3. Topic Knowledge	-0.09	-0.08	-0.09	0.13	0.13	0.14
Number of correct responses (max. 10)	p = 0.233	p = 0.245	p = 0.222	p = 0.143	p = 0.138	p = 117
Q4. Concordant Behaviour	0.02	0.03	0.02	0.28	0.19	0.25
I often base my practice on clinical guidelines	p = 0.447	p = 0.389	p = 0.407	p = 0.009	p = 0.058	p = 0.008
Q5. Discordant Behaviour	0.20	0.29	0.27	-0.16	-0.10	-0.14
There are times when I do not give my patients guideline suggested care as the guidelines differ from what I have always done previously	p = 0.050	p = 0.007	p = 0.012	p = 0.092	p = 0.208	p = 0.129
Q6. Discordant Practice Rate**	-0.27	-0.25	-0.28	-0.04	-0.08	-0.07
For patients under my care, the percentage with an acute coronary syndrome who have no contraindications and are discharged on [treatment] is approximately ...	p = 0.011	p = 0.020	p = 0.009	p = 0.373	p = 0.268	p = 0.293

*All probabilities are 1-tailed
** Q6: A positive correlation denotes a concordant practice rate; by default a negative correlation denotes discordant practice.

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