Can't do it, won't do it! Developing a theoretically framed intervention to encourage better decontamination practice in Scottish dental practices

Table 4 Results of the Postal Survey: Descriptive statistics and Pearson Correlations showing beliefs predicting self-report current decontamination practice

Measure	Descriptive statistics			Pearson Correlation Coefficients
	Alpha	Range	Mean (SD)	Behaviour: GDP	Behaviour: Practice	Behaviour: Total
Attitude: GDP	0.84	3–7	6.2 (0.8)	0.68***	0.41***	0.54***
Attitude: Practice	0.92	4–7	5.9 (0.7)	0.52***	0.57***	0.59***
Attitude: All	0.93	3–7	5.9 (0.7)	0.61***	0.55***	0.62***
PBC: GDP	0.67	1–7	6.0 (1.0)	0.49***	0.33***	0.43***
PBC: Practice	0.87	2–7	5.3 (1.2)	0.42***	0.49***	0.53***
PBC: All	0.88	2–7	5.5 (1.0)	0.46***	0.50***	0.56***
Intention: GDP	0.92	1–7	3.7 (2.3)	0.03	0.03	0.06
Intention: Practice	0.97	1–7	3.7 (2.1)	0.07	0.13	-0.13
Intention: All	0.97	1–7	3.7 (2.1)	0.05	0.09	-0.12

Possible score for all measures = 1 to 7; Alpha = Cronbach's alpha; Behaviour: GDP = Self reported current practice relating to five dentist-level decontamination behaviours from SDCEP guidance document; Behaviour: Practice = Self reported current practice relating to 11 practice-level decontamination behaviours from SDCEP guidance document; Behaviour: Total = Self reported current practice relating to all 16 decontamination behaviours (See Table 1);*p < 0.05;** p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001; The Cronbach's alpha for the outcome measures were: Behaviour:GDP = 0.36; Behaviour: Practice = 0.78; Behaviour: Total = 0.79

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