Table 3

Demographic and professional characteristics of GPs self-perceived ability to recognize as "moderate/bad" opposed to "rather good"


MDE
GAD


OR
95% CI
P
OR
95% CI
P

Gender: male
1.00





     female
0.77
0.18–3.21
0.71
1.00
0.21–4.77
1.00
Work experience: 12 years
1.00





     > 12 years
0.70
0.20–2.51
0.58
0.29
0.07–1.23
0.94
Number of patients pr week: 100
1.00





     >100
1.14
0.31–4.23
0.84
2.50
0.62–10.11
0.20
Number of seminars last two years : 1






     >1
1.11
0.25–5.04
0.89
1.07
0.21–5.44
0.93
Use of questionnaires or psycho- educational material: seldom
1.00





     often
2.13
0.57–7.99
0.26
0.67
0.16–2.74
0.57
In my opinion MDE and GAD are almost the same: not agree
1.00





     partial or full agree
1.3
0.3–5.2
0.68
1.4
0.3–6.6
0.65
I enjoy treating patients with MDE/GAD not agree
1.00





     partial or full agree
10.0
1.1–93.4
0.04
3.7
0.4 – 33.7
0.25

Olssøn et al. Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2006 2:21   doi:10.1186/1745-0179-2-21