Table 1 Demographic and background characteristics of nurses in cardiac care units
From: Iranian nurses’ perspective of barriers to sexual counseling for patients with myocardial infarction
Variable | M | SD | |
|---|---|---|---|
Gender | Female | 154 | 91.1 |
Male | 15 | 8.9 | |
Marital status | Single | 25 | 15.1 |
Married | 143 | 84.9 | |
Level of education | BSc | 155 | 91.7 |
MSc | 14 | 8.3 | |
Position | Nurse | 154 | 91.1 |
Head nurse | 15 | 8.9 | |
Ward | CCUs | 125 | 74 |
Cardiac ward | 22 | 13 | |
Cardiac surgery | 18 | 10.7 | |
Pass specialized training and retraining | Yes | 1 | 0.6 |
No | 168 | 99.4 | |
The courses spent about sexual counseling patients | High | 1 | 0.6 |
Average | 10 | 5.9 | |
Low | 51 | 30.2 | |
Very low | 107 | 63.3 | |
The internship spent about sex advice | High | 1 | 0.6 |
Medium | 5 | 3 | |
Low | 40 | 23.7 | |
Very low | 123 | 72.7 | |
Variable | M | SD | |
Age | 36.12 | 8.06 | |
Work experience | 12.12 | 7.57 | |
Experience in cardiac surgery | 8.36 | 7.18 | |