Before I received my cancer diagnosis, I had complete confidence in my GP's professional skills and judgement, n [%] | ||||
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High confidence | Low confidence | All | ||
After I received | High | 595 (97.1) | 18 (2.9) | 613 (100) |
my cancer diagnosis, | confidence | [87.9] | [20.2] | [80.0] |
I had complete | Low | 82 (53.6) | 71 (46.4) | 153 (100) |
confidence in my GP's | confidencea | [12.1] | [79.8] | [20.0] |
professional skills | All | 677 (88.4) | 89 (11.6) | 766 (100) |
and judgement, n (%) | [100] | [100] | [100] |
Patient answers were dichotomised into ‘low confidence’ (‘completely disagree’, ‘disagree’ and ‘neither disagree nor agree’) and ‘high confidence’ (‘agree’ and ‘completely agree’).
↵a A statistically significantly higher proportion with low confidence was observed after the diagnosis (McNemar, P<0.001).