Factors associated with the extent of nurses’ involvement in promotion of the nursing profession: a cross-sectional study among nurses working in diverse healthcare settings

Table 2 Comparison of mean scores of nursing work environment and nurses’ involvement in the promotion of the nursing profession between the four healthcare settings

Healthcare settings	n	Nursing work environment			Nurses’ involvement in the promotion of the nursing profession
Healthcare settings	n	M (SD)	F-statistic (df1, df2)^a	p- value ^a	M (SD)	F-statistic (df1, df2)^a	p- value ^a
Internal medicine and surgical units	221	3.34 (0.65)	4.748 (3,522)	.003^b	2.13 (0.87)	1.601 (3,522)	.188^c
Pediatric wards	107	3.25 (0.70)			1.76 (0.83)
Psychiatric wards	73	3.34 (0.63)			2.00 (0.83)
Community	125	3.59 (0.67)			2.16 (0.81)

Abbreviation: M (SD), mean (standard deviation)
^a One-way ANOVA
^bPost-hoc analysis with Tukey’s HSD Test shows significant/borderline difference between community and (a) internal medicine and surgical units (p = .007); (b) pediatric (p = .006) and (c) psychiatric (p = .068) healthcare settings
^cPost-hoc analysis with Tukey’s HSD Test shows no significant difference between healthcare settings.

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