Comparison of the clinician variables in the two arms of the trial
Control | Intervention | ||||
n/N or median | % or (IQR) | n/N or median | % or (IQR) | p Value | |
Clinician profile | |||||
Number of GCP trained clinicians | 34/58 | 58.6% | 32/46 | 69.6% | 0.25* |
Years since qualified | 22 | (14–27) | 23 | (17–27) | 0.38† |
Clinicians who recruited | |||||
Number of recruiting clinicians | 30/58 | 51.7% | 34/46 | 73.9% | 0.021* |
Number of recruiting nurses | 7/11 | 63.6% | 11/13 | 84.6% | 0.36‡ |
Number of recruiting GPs | 23/47 | 48.9% | 23/33 | 69.7% | 0.064* |
Number of children recruited by clinician type | |||||
Number of children recruited by nurses | 65/209 | 31.1% | 155/292 | 53.1% | <0.001* |
Number of children recruited by GPs | 144/209 | 68.9% | 137/292 | 46.9% | <0.001* |
Recruitment of children | |||||
Median number of children recruited per clinician | 1 | (0–4) | 3 | (0–11) | 0.014† |
Median number recruited per nurse | 3 | (0–7) | 12 | (3-17) | 0.13† |
Median number recruited per GP | 0 | (0–4) | 2 | (0–4) | 0.077† |
*χ2 test.
†Mann-Whitney U test.
‡Fisher’s exact test.
GP, general practitioner.