Table 6 Relationship between the quality of nursing care from patients’ perspectives and their demographic specifications
From: Patients' perceptions of the quality of nursing services
The main research variable | Demographic specifications | Category | Mean ± SD quality of nursing care | Type of test and significance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pearson correlation coefficient | P-Value* | ||||
Quality of nursing care | Age |  < 20 | 189.56 ± 16.88 | 0.536 | 0.03 |
20–35 | 190.49 ± 17.62 |  | |||
36–50 | 192.64 ± 19.31 | ||||
 > 50 | 193.19 ± 20.11 | ||||
-- | Â | Â | t-test (t) | P-Value* | |
Sex | Male | 189.66 ± 18.65 | 1.921 | 0.01 | |
Female | 193.29 ± 19.87 | ||||
Place of residence | Rural | 197.76 ± 20.34 | 1.873 | 0.02 | |
Urban | 185.19 ± 16.24 | ||||
-- | Â | Â | ANOVA (F) | P-Value* | |
Marital status | Single | 196.43 ± 20.28 | 1.501 | 0.11 | |
Married | 192.49 ± 19.76 | ||||
Divorced | 187.61 ± 17.84 | ||||
Widowed | 189.36 ± 18.47 | ||||
Level of education | Illiterate | 193.64 ± 19.29 | 1.224 | 0.10 | |
Primary school | 195.89 ± 20.14 | ||||
Middle school | 189.71 ± 18.57 | ||||
Diploma and higher | 186.63 ± 17.88 | ||||
Income level | No income | 194.87 ± 19.18 | 1.144 | 0.16 | |
10–20 million Rials |  196.59±20.32 | ||||
21–30 million Rials |  188.57 ± 18.35 | ||||
 > 30 million Rials | 185.86 ± 17.72 | ||||