Graded Task intervention | Description of situation | % GPs rating "Yes" (N = 163) | % GPs using situation as basis for their management "plan" (N = 158) | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Situation 1 | Could you confidently end a consultation for a patient with an URTI without prescribing an antibiotic? | 94 | 17 | |||||||||||
Situation 2 | Could you confidently manage patients with URTIs without an antibiotic, who have already tried to self-medicate? | 75 | 12 | |||||||||||
Situation 3 | Could you confidently manage patients with URTIs without an antibiotic, who expect you to prescribe an antibiotic? | 62 | 17 | |||||||||||
Situation 4 | Could you confidently manage patients with URTIs without an antibiotic, whose symptoms are distressing them | 45 | 17 | |||||||||||
Situation 5 | Could you confidently manage patients with URTIs without an antibiotic, who have a past history of COPD 1 ? | 9 | 30 | |||||||||||
Own situation | Where another doctor had already prescribed antibiotics for the same episode | - | 7 | |||||||||||
Persuasive communication | Description of rating | Proportion of GPs rating themselves as 0–100% like Dr B 2 (N = 161) | ||||||||||||
0% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 60% | 70% | 80% | 90% | 100% | %Mean (SD) | Mean Difference (t-test) | ||
Rating 1 (Intended behaviour) | % GP "tries to be like Dr B2" | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 44 | 28 | 82.1 (25.6) | 10.8 (t = 8.326, p < 0.001) |
Rating 2 (Actual behaviour) | % GP is "actually like Dr B" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 26 | 25 | 18 | 4 | 71.3 (18.5) |