Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the registered nurses presented as percentage unless specified otherwise
Characteristics | Overall (n = 17686) | Subgroup of registered nurses | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Service (n = 13172) | Research (n = 1187) | Administrative (n = 3327) | ||
Age (years) | ||||
20–29 | 11.3 | 14.4 | 6.2 | 0.6 |
30–39 | 24.0 | 29.0 | 19.0 | 5.6 |
40–49 | 36.1 | 36.0 | 33.9 | 37.2 |
50–59 | 26.7 | 19.6 | 35.4 | 51.9 |
60 or greater | 2.0 | 1.0 | 5.6 | 4.6 |
Mean ± SD | 43.5 ± 9.6 | 41.4 ± 9.4 | 46.5 ± 9.4 | 50.6 ± 6.6 |
Gender | ||||
Female | 97.3 | 97.2 | 96.4 | 98.0 |
Male | 2.7 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 2.0 |
Body mass index (kg/m2) | ||||
Lower than 18 | 4.2 | 4.9 | 2.9 | 1.8 |
18–24.99 | 74.8 | 76.0 | 71.1 | 71.3 |
25 or greater | 21.0 | 19.1 | 26.0 | 26.9 |
Mean ± SD | 23.4 ± 3.4 | 22.7 ± 3.5 | 22.5 ± 3.5 | 23.3 ± 3.6 |
Working status | ||||
Government officers | 82.0 | 82.1 | 77.9 | 83.2 |
Government employees | 3.9 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 1.0 |
State enterprise employees | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.6 |
Private employees | 7.7 | 7.2 | 9.6 | 8.8 |
Business owners | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 |
Others | 5.3 | 4.9 | 7.8 | 5.8 |
Workplace | ||||
Hospital | 81.1 | 84.9 | 26.0 | 86.1 |
Health centre, clinic | 8.9 | 10.6 | 5.8 | 3.1 |
Nursing room at educational institutes | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
Nursing college or university | 3.2 | 0.4 | 38.3 | 1.6 |
Department, division, ministry | 2.6 | 0.9 | 18.9 | 3.4 |
Others | 3.8 | 2.7 | 10.6 | 5.5 |
Duration of working (years) | ||||
10 or smaller | 14.5 | 18.6 | 7.7 | 1.0 |
11–20 | 27.0 | 31.9 | 23.3 | 8.8 |
21–30 | 36.3 | 33.6 | 37.5 | 46.3 |
31 or greater | 22.3 | 15.9 | 31.5 | 44.0 |
Mean ± SD | 21.5 ± 9.9 | 19.5 ± 9.7 | 24.5 ± 9.4 | 28.7 ± 6.7 |
Duration of shift work | ||||
8 h per shift | 97.3 | 97.2 | 95.4 | 97.8 |
12 h per shift | 2.7 | 2.8 | 4.6 | 2.2 |
Type of shift work | ||||
Most of daytime shift | 50.7 | 47.6 | 40.1 | 66.6 |
Most of evening shift | 5.7 | 7.3 | 1.5 | 0.9 |
Most of night shift | 2.5 | 3.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
All three-shift rotation | 20.6 | 27.0 | 3.3 | 1.3 |
Regular daytime non-shift | 19.1 | 13.9 | 50.2 | 28.8 |
Work leave/unemployed | 1.4 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 2.2 |