Healthcare professionals' intentions to use clinical guidelines: a survey using the theory of planned behaviour

Table 2 Description of the variables in the models--means (standard deviations)

Variable	Overall model	Physicians model	Nurses model	Others model
	(n = 638)	(n = 123)	(n = 436)	(n = 79)
Theory of planned behaviour variables
Intention (1 item), scale: 1-7^a	5.3 (1.3)	5.5 (1.2)	5.3 (1.3)	5.0 (1.3)
Attitude (3 items), scale: 1-7^a	5.4 (1.2)	5.2 (1.3)	5.4 (1.2)	5.4 (1.2)
Subjective norm (3 items), scale: 1-7^a	5.4 (1.0)	5.4 (1.0)	5.4 (1.1)	5.4 (1.0)
Perceived behaviour control (6 items), scale: 1-7^a	4.4 (0.8)	4.5 (0.8)	4.3 (0.9)	4.4 (0.8)
Individual-level variables for the respondents
Gender (male = 0, female = 1)	0.9 (0.3)	0.6 (0.5)	0.9 (0.2)	0.9 (0.2)
Age	44.4 (8.4)	45.8 (8.9)	43.9 (8.3)	45.2 (7.7)
Nurse_d (nurse = 1, physician or other professional = 0)	0.7 (0.5)	-	-	-
Physician_d (physician = 1, nurse or other professional = 0)	0.2 (0.4)	-	-	-
Organisation-level variables for the respondents
Primary care (primary care = 1, secondary care = 0)	0.6 (0.5)	0.5 (0.5)	0.6 (0.5)	0.7 (0.5)
KL (KL = 1, others = 0)^b	0.5 (0.5)	0.4 (0.5)	0.5 (0.5)	0.5 (0.5)
NS (NS = 1, others = 0)^b	0.4 (0.5)	0.5 (0.5)	0.4 (0.5)	0.4 (0.5)

^a Higher score = more positive view.
^b Kymenlaakso (KL) and Northern-Savo (NS) hospital districts, as dummy variables, with the Central-Finland hospital district (CF) as a reference group in the regression models.

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