Table 1 The sociodemographic data of the respondents
From: Attitudes of polish nurses towards representatives of certain religions
Parameters | The Study Group | |
|---|---|---|
Gender | Female | 96.70% |
Male | 3.30% | |
Age | 21–75 years of age 46.13 ± 10.09 (Me 49) | |
Work experience in the profession | 1–53 years of age 23.68 ± 11.31 (Me 27) | |
Education | secondary vocational education | 43.04% |
higher undergraduate | 39.18% | |
higher master’s degree | 16.68% | |
no answer | 1.1% | |
Specialization in nursing | 16.44% | |
The transcultural nursing training | 15.50% | |
Places of residence | village | 49.17% |
city < 20 thousand inhabitants | 28.09% | |
city > 20 thousand inhabitants | 20.54% | |
no answer | 2.2% | |
Living abroad (in the past) | 12.43% | |
Working abroad as a nurse (in the past) | 2.36% | |
Religion | Catholics | 92.29% |
other religious affiliation | 0.55% | |
(Protestants, Orthodox, Muslim, Greek Catholic) | ||
atheists | 1.34% | |
no answer | 5.82% | |
Religiousness | “deeply religious” | 36.74% |
“rather religious” | 55.31% | |
“difficult to say” | 6.45% | |
no answer | 1.49% | |
Religious practices | few times a week | 15.97% |
once a week | 60.11% | |
less than once a week | 21.95% | |
no answer | 1.97% | |
Private or professional contact with representatives of other religions | 93.63% | |
Providing care for people of different religion (most often they were Jehovah’s Witnesses, Orthodox, Protestants, Seventh-day Adventists) | 64.99% | |