Table 1 Characteristics of participants with no missing values on the Knowledge about Older Patients-Quiz (n = 1743)
From: Hospital nurses’ knowledge regarding older patients: a multicenter study
Characteristics | |
Sex, female, n (%) | 1590 (91.5%) |
Missing, n | 5 (0.3%) |
Age, mean (SD) | 38.7 (12.4) |
Missing, n | 122 (7.0%) |
Level of high school education (%) | |
Preparatory secondary vocational education (4 years) | 876 (50.3%) |
Preparatory secondary higher education (5 years) | 686 (39.4%) |
Pre-university education (6 years) | 108 (6.2%) |
Missing, n | 73 (4.2%) |
Level of nursing education, n(%) | |
Vocational | 607 (34.8%) |
Bachelor | 611 (35.1%) |
In-service | 479 (27.5%) |
Missing, n | 46 (2.6%) |
Years of experience, mean (SD) | 15.81 (12.3) |
Missing, n (%) | 25 (1.4%) |
Type of ward where nurses currently working, n (%) | |
Internal medicine | 910 (52.2%) |
Surgery specialties | 597 (34.3%) |
Combinations ward with internal medicine and surgery specialties | 220 (12.6%) |
Unknown | 3 (0.2%) |
Different | 13 (0.7%) |
Missing, n | 0 (0%) |