Table 2

Knowledge and confidence to deal with impaired/incompetent colleagues*

	Of same profession at same organisation†		Of same profession at different organisation		Of another profession at same organisation		Of another profession at different organisation
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Total	706/980	72.0	337/1115	30.2	520/1067	51.3	263/1125	23.4
Gender
Male	294	80.5	155	37.0	229	57.1	111	26.2
Female	412	67.0	182	26.1	318	47.7	152	21.7
Age (years)
≤30	49	70.0	14	19.7	27	38.0	12	16.7
30–39	118	65.6	41	21.4	79	42.0	32	16.7
40–49	175	70.6	65	24.4	134	50.6	56	20.9
50–59	257	73.6	133	33.2	204	53.5	95	23.5
≥60	107	80.5	84	45.4	103	63.6	68	36.0
Profession
Dentist	49	71.0	24	29.6	37	49.3	18	22.0
Elderly care physician	92	66.7	20	14.3	81	57.9	14	10.0
General practitioner	143	71.5	79	37.4	111	52.4	48	22.5
Midwife	71	65.1	31	27.7	48	43.6	28	24.8
Medical specialist	61	71.8	28	32.6	44	51.2	18	20.5
Nurses	64	81.0	23	29.9	44	55.0	26	33.8
Pharmacist	35	87.5	14	26.4	17	34.0	10	18.2
Physiotherapist	58	64.4	18	18.9	33	35.5	15	15.8
Psychologist	49	80.3	32	36.8	43	55.1	27	30.0
Psychotherapist	84	77.1	68	39.3	89	62.2	59	34.3
Years in practice
<10	169	66.8	64	24.5	112	43.8	44	16.8
10–19	232	74.1	103	28.8	181	53.2	86	24.0
20–29	184	71.0	106	35.0	149	50.9	77	25.0
≥30	110	78.6	59	33.5	94	58.4	50	27.9
Type of organisation
Hospital	100	68.5	38	26.2	72	48.6	31	21.1
Mental healthcare organisation	33	82.5	10	22.7	31	70.5	11	25.0
Nursing home	105	70.9	27	17.9	89	59.7	20	13.3
Community health centre	59	75.6	27	32.9	40	47.1	19	22.6
Independent practice	361	71.3	216	34.5	281	49.0	165	26.1
Other	27	77.1	9	22.5	20	50.0	8	20.0
Colleagues of same profession
No	49	62.0	83	39.5	77	46.7	70	32.0
W/ colleague(s) same profession	657	72.9	254	28.1	470	52.1	193	21.3
Salaried instead of self-employed
No	412	73.2	238	34.9	314	49.8	174	25.3
Yes	294	70.5	99	22.9	233	53.4	89	20.4

*Percentages are based on valid cases and are unadjusted.
†A comment was included that if the respondent was not working with professionals of the same profession, this could be left blank.