Professional training on shared decision making with older adults living with neurocognitive disorders: a mixed-methods implementation study

Table 2 Characteristics of study participants

Participant Characteristics	Frequency (Total N = 47)
Participant Characteristics	n	%
Age (years) ^a
Under 30	7	15.2
30–39	15	32.6
40–49	15	32.6
50–59	8	17.4
60–69	1	2.2
Gender
Female	39	83.0
Male	8	17.0
Profession
Physician	17	36.2
Nurse	10	21.3
Social worker	10	21.3
Occupational therapist	6	12.8
Nursing assistant	1	2.1
Dietician	1	2.1
Pharmacist	1	2.1
Physiotherapist	1	2.1
City size where practice located^b
Rural area	0	0.0
Small city	6	12.8
Mid-size city	0	0.00
Large city	41	87.2
Years of practice^c
< 10	18	38.3
10–19	11	23.4
20–29	12	25.5
30–39	3	6.4
Do not recall	3	6.4
Received prior SDM training
Yes	9	19.2
No	38	80.9

^aOne missing data for age
^bCity size < 1000 = rural; 1000–29,999 = small; 30,000–99,99 = mid-size; > 100,000 = large (Statistics Canada, 2011)
^cYears of practice = year of data collection (2018) – year practice license was granted

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