Physicians’ knowledge and attitude regarding bisphosphonates-related adverse events: An observational study

Table 4 Multiple regression analysis of factors associated with the level of knowledge

	Unstandardized coefficients		Standardized coefficients	Student	P-value	Partial correlations
	β	Standard error	β
Department affiliation	1.253	0.610	0.201	2.054	0.043a	0.204
Gender	1.103	0.539	0.194	2.045	0.044a	0.203
No. of medical sales representatives received per week	0.167	0.330	0.048	0.506	0.614	0.051
Time consumed for academic work	0.144	0.331	0.038	0.434	0.665	0.044
BP prescription	-1.455	0.566	-0.242	-2.569	0.012a	-0.252
No. of BP prescriptions delivered per month	1.106	0.431	0.241	2.567	0.012a	0.252
Most frequent form of BP prescribed	0.870	0.671	0.122	1.296	0.198	0.130

^aP-value < 0.05 (level of significance). BP: Bisphosphonate.