Skip to main content

Table 1 Characteristics of survey respondents. Breakdown by profession, country of origin, gender and year of graduation

From: Pilot study for the understanding and use of probiotics by different paediatric healthcare professionals working in different European countries

Country

Dietitian

N (%)

Paediatrician

N (%)

GP

N (%)

Other

N(%)

Total N (% of respondents)

United Kingdom

409 (95.6)

10 (2.2)

5 (13.9)

2 (3.9)

426 (31.6)

Russia

2 (0.5)

342 (40.2)

2 (5.5)

6 (11.5)

352 (26.1)

Italy

2 (0.9)

201 (23.5)

7 (19.5)

17 (32.7)

227 (16.9)

Turkey

0

223 (26.2)

0

1 (1.9)

224 (16.7)

Croatia

0

66 (7.6)

0

0

66 (4.8)

Other country

13 (3.0)

4 (0.3)

22 (61.1)

26 (50.0)

54 (3.9)

Total

426 (100)

846 (100)

36 (100)

52 (100)

1360 (100)

Gender

 Female

388 (93.3)

585 (70.2)

15 (42.8)

30 (57.7)

1018 (76.2)

 Male

24 (5.8)

240 (28.8)

20 (57.2)

21 (42.3)

305 (22.8)

 Prefer not to say

4 (0.9)

9 (1.0)

0

0

13 (1.0)

Total

416 (100)

834 (100)

35 (100)

52 (100)

1336 (100)

When graduated

 last 5 years

158 (37.1)

330 (39.1)

6 (17.2)

14 (26.9)

508 (37.4)

 5–15 years ago

118 (27.7)

197 (23.2)

5 (14.3)

17 (32.8)

337 (24.9)

 > 15 years ago

150 (35.2)

316 (37.3)

24 (68.5)

21 (40.3)

511 (37.6)

 Did not declare

0

1 (0.4)

0

0

1 (0.1)

Total

426 (100)

844 (100)

35 (100)

52 (100)

1357