Research Article
Doctors’ Knowledge of Hypertension Guidelines Recommendations Reflected in Their Practice
Table 3
Frequencies of doctors’ responses of attitude statements towards CPG (2008).
| Statement | SA | A | UD | DA | SA |
| I have trust in the recommendations and developing committee of CPG (2008) | 2 | 24 | - | - | - | CPG (2008) on the management of hypertension is helpful for doctors | 1 | 24 | 1 | - | - | Adherence to CPG (2008) would produce desired outcome | 1 | 25 | - | - | - | CPG (2008) is motivated by desire to cut cost | - | 3 | 6 | 17 | - | CPG (2008) decreases doctors’ autonomy | - | 3 | 1 | 22 | - | CPG (2008) is too rigid to apply to individual patients | - | 2 | 3 | 21 | - |
|
|
CPG, clinical practice guidelines; SA, strongly agree; A, agree; UD, undecided; DA, disagree; SD, strongly disagree.
|