3.1 Participants’ characteristics
Overall, 234 paediatricians (27.7% of physicians registered to the
Congress) returned the questionnaire. The completion rate was 100%.
The average time taken to answer a question was 5 minutes.
The three Italian macro-regions were represented as follow: North
136/234, Centre 55/234, and South 43/234.
The most of participants in the survey were residents in paediatrics
(39.74%, 93/234) followed by hospital paediatricians (30.34%, 71/234),
family paediatricians (18.8%, 44/234), and university paediatricians
(11.11%, 26/234).