Characteristics of the participants
The participants’ characteristics are reported in Table 1 .
Fifty-seven obstetricians answered the questionnaire: 40 had already
participated in specific training in physiology-based CTG interpretation
and were included in the training group, and 17 participants were
included in the control group. The level of experience was the same in
both groups (p = 0.623). The majority of participants were residents (in
their fourth year or higher) and worked in a university hospital.
Participants in the training group either participated in a two-day
master class (27.5%), had a shorter training course (72.5%) or read a
book on physiology-based CTG interpretation (25.0%). Most of the
participants in the training group declared using this teaching in their
daily practice (95.0%).