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Background Primary care physicians (PCPs), who play a crucial role in providing primary healthcare services, utilize clinical practice guidelines as valuable tools for guiding their practice. By investigating these physicians' awareness and usage of guidelines, we can offer innovative strategies for promoting guideline adherence and enhancing physicians' training. This, in turn, can ultimately improve the quality of primary healthcare. Objective To explore the level of awareness and the current status of reference use of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) guidelines for diabetes among PCPs, and to identify the influencing factors. Methods From September 22 to October 29, 2021, an online questionnaire survey was conducted among physicians affiliated with the Specialist Committee for Primary Diabetes Care of China Association of Chinese Medicine, using the snowball sampling method to ensure a broader representation of physicians. The questionnaire consists of three parts: basic information, current status and needs of physicians in using TCM for diabetes prevention and treatment, and a survey on physicians' current awareness and needs regarding diabetes guidelines. Ordered multiclass Logistic regression analysis was used to identify the influencing factors of PCPs' awareness and usage of TCM guidelines for diabetes. Results A total of 382 questionnaires were collected from PCPs, 35.34% (135/382) of the physicians were very familiar or fairly familiar with TCM guidelines for diabetes, while 28.80% (110/382) of the physicians referred to these guidelines regularly for diabetes management. The results of the univariate analysis showed that, PCPs with differences in gender, specialty, department, number of diabetic patients treated per week, evaluation of TCM treatment efficacy, availability of TCM herbs and Chinese patent drugs in physicians' institutions, and physicians' awareness of guidelines, showed statistically significant differences in their reference status of TCM guidelines for diabetes (P |
