Adherence index
A guideline adherence index was calculated based on participants’
responses to the adherence indicators to each of the guideline
recommendations, which were dichotomized into ‘Adherence’ (those
responding ‘strongly agree’ and ‘agree’ to guideline adherence
indicators) and ‘Non-adherence’ (those responding ‘strongly disagree’,
‘disagree’, ‘neither agree nor disagree’ or ‘I don’t know’). Adherence
was coded as 1, while non-adherence was coded as 0 (