Table 3 shows the consultation characteristics of the participating patients.
Descriptive analysis was performed on patient and consultation characteristics.
Consultation characteristics were also included as independent variables.
In addition, the influence of consultation characteristics on the utilization of MI skills will be described.
The overall effect of the consultation characteristics on the MI skills was studied in a multilevel regression analyses.
The consultation characteristics under study were time, the amount of nurse communication, and the amount of lifestyle discussion during consultation as well as patients' readiness to change.
Two judges evaluated independently the MI skills and the consultation characteristics time, amount of nurse communication, amount of lifestyle discussion and patients' readiness to change.
These results suggest the importance of provider factors such as the team location (urban versus rural) in moderating the association between patient and consultation characteristics and intervention practices.
Consultation characteristics such as the consultation type and reason for the visit were the most important in explaining the variation in assessment practices, however these factors along with patient and provider variables accounted for less than 20% of the variance.
The crude and adjusted associations with time to diagnosis for patient doctor continuity, symptoms/signs and patient, doctor, and consultation characteristics for the three different cancers are shown in Table 4.
A check list guide was created based on a previous systematic literature review in order to assist with the observational recording of health centres and their consultation characteristics, including a structured inventory of essential IMCI treatments, vaccines, and equipment.
