Means and standard deviations for item responses by type of notification
| Case reporting | Patient referral | Provider referral | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| N varies between 3844 and 4006, depending on skipped responses. Response scale: 1 = strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = neutral, 4 = agree, 5 = strongly agree. | ||||||
| (1) Complies with clinic standard of care | 3.61 | 0.9 | 3.77 | 0.9 | 2.74 | 0.9 |
| (2) What most of my colleagues do | 3.25 | 1.0 | 3.47 | 0.8 | 2.46 | 0.9 |
| (3) Expected by my health department | 3.69 | 0.9 | 3.56 | 0.8 | 2.79 | 1.0 |
| (4) Valued in my clinic setting | 3.37 | 1.0 | 3.81 | 0.8 | 2.81 | 0.9 |
| (5) I don’t feel comfortable | 2.54 | 1.2 | 2.08 | 0.9 | 3.48 | 1.1 |
| (6) I don’t feel well trained | 2.51 | 1.1 | 2.28 | 0.9 | 3.09 | 1.0 |
| (7) Causes my patients not to return | 2.67 | 1.0 | 2.29 | 0.8 | 3.12 | 1.0 |
| (8) Gets the patient upset with me | 3.01 | 1.0 | 2.29 | 0.8 | 3.38 | 1.0 |
| (9) Not my responsibility | 2.27 | 1.0 | 1.97 | 0.8 | 3.14 | 1.0 |
| (10) Help prevent spread of STD | 4.16 | 0.9 | 4.08 | 0.8 | 3.66 | 1.0 |
| (11) Fulfil my “duty to warn” | 3.81 | 0.9 | 3.67 | 0.9 | 3.40 | 1.0 |
| (12) Protects my patients from re-infection | 3.58 | 1.1 | 3.66 | 1.0 | 3.42 | 1.0 |
| (13) Opportunity for prevention education | 4.01 | 0.8 | 4.13 | 0.7 | 3.72 | 0.8 |
| (14) Helps patients change their risk behaviour | 3.18 | 1.1 | 3.42 | 1.0 | 3.11 | 1.0 |
| (15) Take too much of my time | 2.82 | 1.1 | 2.12 | 0.9 | 3.73 | 1.0 |
| (16) Take too much staff time | 2.80 | 1.2 | 2.18 | 0.9 | 3.72 | 1.0 |
| (17) An activity I won’t get paid for | 3.57 | 1.1 | 3.28 | 1.1 | 3.72 | 1.0 |