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Table 1 Two main extracted factors, significant factor loadings and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) for general practitioner attitudes within practices

From: General practitioner attitudes to the care of people with epilepsy: an examination of clustering within practices and prediction of patient-rated quality of care

 

Factor loading1

ICC2

Factor 1: "Primary care responsibility"(Eigenvalue 3.98, 24.9% of variance explained)-mean scores

0.40

"Not too time pressured to take on epilepsy care"

0.785

0.37**

"GP has primary responsibility for organising follow up care"

0.769

0.13

"Epilepsy care not too difficult to organise"

0.767

0.19*

"Epilepsy care not a specialist responsibility"

0.732

0.34**

"Epilepsy care should be based in general practice"

0.684

0.44**

"Annual structured review should be carried out in primary care"

0.657

0.10

Factor 2: "Medication skills"(Eigenvalue 2.74, 17.1% of variance explained)

0.35

"Comfortable adjusting dose of medication"

0.724

0.31**

"GP responsible for adjusting treatment if more fits"

0.718

0.25*

"Comfortable adjusting type of medication"

0.655

0.17

  1. p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01
  2. 1 (based on mean GP scores per practice)
  3. 2 (based on individual GP scores in practices with >1 respondent)