Demographics characteristics and confidence in pubertal staging of survey respondents by professional role
| Professional role | N | % Male | Frequency of performing pubertal staging examinations N (%) | Confidence in pubertal staging‡ | ||||||
| At least once per week | At least once a month | Every few months | A few times a year | Less that once a year | Never | Male staging | Female staging | |||
| Consultant paediatrician | ||||||||||
| Paediatric endocrinologist | 37 | 48.6* | 36 (97.3) | 1 (2.7) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 (9, 10) | 10 (9, 10) |
| General paediatrician with an interest in paediatric endocrinology | 24 | 25.0 | 15 (62.5) | 7 (29.2) | 2 (8.3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 (8, 10) | 9 (8, 10) |
| Other | 56 | 26.8 | 0 | 6 (10.7) | 13 (23.2) | 21 (37.5) | 14 (25.0) | 2 (3.6) | 6 (4, 8) | 7 (5, 8) |
| Specialty trainee in paediatrics† | ||||||||||
| Level 3 subspecialty trainee in diabetes and endocrinology | 17 | 5.9 | 16 (94.1) | 1 (5.9) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 (8, 9) | 9 (7, 9) |
| Other level 3 (ST 6 to 8) | 37 | 18.9 | 2 (5.4) | 3 (8.1) | 4 (10.8) | 4 (10.8) | 13 (35.1) | 11 (29.7) | 4 (1.5, 7) | 4.5 (2, 6.5) |
| Level 2 (ST 4 to 5) | 24 | 20.8 | 0 | 1 (4.2) | 3 (12.5) | 3 (12.5) | 6 (25.0) | 11 (45.8) | 5 (2.5, 6) | 5 (4, 7) |
| Level 1 (ST 1 to 3) | 17 | 23.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 (100) | 2 (1, 4) | 4 (2, 5) |
| Paediatric endocrinology nurse specialist (PENS) | 23 | 8.7 | 7 (30.4) | 4 (17.4) | 2 (8.7) | 2 (8.7) | 0 | 8 (34.8) | 2 (0, 7) | 7.5 (3, 9) |
*Two respondents in this group preferred not to reveal their sex.
†Training in paediatrics in the UK typically takes 8 years and is divided into three levels (level 1 is the most junior and level 3 senior trainees). At level 3, trainees can choose to subspecialise.
‡Confidence was self-rated on an integer scale with 0 representing not at all confident, and 10 fully confident.