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

Table 3 Effects of TPB variables and individual and organisation characteristics on professionals' intention to use clinical guidelines--ordinary least squares models

	Overall model			Physicians model			Nurses model			Others model
Variables	B	t-test		B	t-test		B	t-test		B	t-test
Constant	0.84	2.07	*	1.15	1.26		0.98	2.03	*	1.96	1.50
Attitude	0.26	6.15	***	0.24	3.11	**	0.27	5.18	***	0.15	1.16
Subjective norm	0.34	7.13	***	0.27	2.67	**	0.33	5.71	***	0.48	3.02	**
Perceived behaviour control	0.34	5.94	***	0.45	3.82	***	0.28	3.99	***	0.35	2.03	*
Gender	-0.01	-0.09		0.01	0.05		0.09	0.38		-0.07	-0.12
Age	-0.01	-1.62		-0.01	-1.19		-0.00	-0.54		-0.03	-1.84
Primary care	0.9	0.93		-0.40	-2.34	*	0.20	1.74		0.30	0.97
KL^a	-0.32	-1.89		0.07	0.16		-0.24	-1.14		-0.71	-1.63
NS^a	-0.18	-1.11		0.45	1.10		-0.21	-1.03		-0.55	-1.33
Nurse_dummy^b	0.34	2.70	**
Physician_dummy^b	0.52	3.25	**
n	637			122			435			78
R square	0.37			0.52			0.36			0.39
Adjusted R	0.36			0.48			0.34			0.32
F	37.41		***	15.13		***	29.73		***	5.56		***

***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05
^a Kymenlaakso (KL) and Northern-Savo (NS) hospital districts: dummy variables, with the Central-Finland hospital district (CF) as a reference group.
^bThe other profession group was a reference group in the overall model.

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