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.