Nurses’ clinical competency and its correlates: before and during the COVID-19 outbreak

BMC Nursing

Table 3 Multiple models of the associations between variables and clinical competency before and during the COVID-19 outbreak

Variable			B	SE^a	β	T	P	95% CI Lower	95% CI Upper	R²
Clinical competency	Before COVID-19	Constant	191.95	14.19	-	13.52	< 0.001	163.99	219.90	% 2
		Shift type	-13.37	6.67	-0.12	-2.00	0.046	-26.52	-0.22
		Overtime	-0.133	0.07	-0.11	-1.79	0.074	-0.27	0.01
	During COVID-19	Constant	151.01	11.08	-	13.62	< 0.001	129.18	172.85	% 2.6
		Work experience	5.14	1.93	0.181	2.65	0.009	1.32	8.96
		Gender	7.88	4.30	0.117	1.83	0.068	-0.58	16.36
		Income	-5.78	3.47	-0.113	-1.66	0.097	-12.62	1.05

^aStandard error; CI, Confidence intervals for B; Work experience (1 = > 5, 2 = 5 -10, 3 = 11 – 15, 4 = > 15); Shift type (1 = Fixed and 2 = Not fixed)

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