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Table 2 Prescribing practices and measurement scores of respondents

From: Determinants of antibiotic prescribing behaviors of primary care physicians in Hubei of China: a structural equation model based on the theory of planned behavior

Measurements

Mean (SD)

Skewness

Median

N (%) of scores > 3

Attitudes (5 items)

3.14 (0.79)

−0.2963

3.20

256 (50.89)

Subjective norms (6 items)

3.05 (0.70)

−0.2584

3.00

245 (48.71)

Perceived behavioral control (5 items)

3.39 (0.67)

−0.1065

3.40

336 (66.80)

Behavioral intentions

 to prescribe antibiotics (3 items)

2.15 (0.63)

0.2699

2.00

21 (4.17)

 to reduce antibiotic prescriptions (3 items)

4.29 (0.52)

−0.1684

4.00

487 (96.82)

Prescribing practice

 Percentage of prescriptions containing antibiotics

40.54 (20.82)

0.3171

40.35

–

 Percentage of prescriptions containing combined antibiotics

9.81 (10.18)

2.3259

7.20

–

  1. SD Standard deviation