Factors influencing parent-child relationships in chinese nurses: a cross-sectional study

Huang, Lei; Huang, Xia; Wang, Jingjun; Zhang, Fengjian; Fei, Yang; Tang, Jie; Wang, Ya

doi:10.1186/s12912-023-01413-7

BMC Nursing

Table 1 Comparison of demographic data of parent-child relationships (N = 350)

From: Factors influencing parent-child relationships in chinese nurses: a cross-sectional study

Variables	N	Mean (SD)	F/t	P
Gender			-0.769^a	0.442
Male	14	75.57 ± 8.55
Female	336	77.83 ± 10.86
Marital status			0.928^b	0.396
Unmarried	24	78.87 ± 12.05
Married	309	77.83 ± 10.60
Divorced or widowed	17	74.47 ± 12.09
Education			1.600^b	0.203
College degree or under	75	75.84 ± 10.34
Bachelor	257	78.18 ± 10.95
Postgraduate or above	18	79.39 ± 9.44
Character			10.653^b	0.000*
Introverted	102	75.60 ± 11.30
Extroverted	164	80.49 ± 9.90
Uncertain	84	74.99 ± 10.56
Economic situation			1.816^b	0.164
Poor	56	79.07 ± 10.59
Common	179	78.30 ± 11.02
Good	115	76.23 ± 10.38
Relationship with spouse’s parents			9.248^b	0.000*
Inharmonious	10	67.50 ± 10.69
Common	120	75.76 ± 10.96
Harmonious	220	79.29 ± 10.28
Number of own children			3.164^b	0.043*
1	230	78.53 ± 10.66
2	92	75.35 ± 10.70
Others	28	79.14 ± 11.10
Post			0.802	0.449
Responsible nurse	221	77.62 ± 10.95
Nursing team leader	79	78.89 ± 10.68
Head nurse or above	50	76.48 ± 10.12
Form of employment			0.854^a	0.394
Contract labour	289	77.97 ± 11.08
Permanent staff	61	76.67 ± 9.17
Department			1.171^b	0.323
Medicine department	50	77.92 ± 10.23
Surgical department	72	78.49 ± 9.62
Psychiatry department	137	77.75 ± 11.53
Emergency or Intensive care unit	19	72.68 ± 11.13
Other departments	72	78.19 ± 10.58
Sleep Quality			8.375^b	0.000*
Poor	52	74.40 ± 8.35
Common	167	76.04 ± 11.50
Good	116	80.96 ± 9.74
Extremely good	15	83.40 ± 9.73
Exercise frequency			2.664^b	0.048*
Never	77.39	77.39 ± 11.68
Rarely	76.74	76.74 ± 10.57
Often	80.05	80.05 ± 10.26
Frequently	83.71	83.71 ± 13.65
Nurse-patient relationship			-5.457^a	0.000*
Common	75	71.96 ± 10.47
Harmonious	275	79.32 ± 10.32
Whether felt tired when dealing with nurse-patient relationship			13.309^b	0.000*
Never	51	84.45 ± 10.67
Rarely	116	79.28 ± 10.01
Often	170	75.15 ± 10.47
Frequently	13	71.69 ± 6.93
Whether felt overworked			11.543^b	0.000*
Never	21	85.19 ± 10.49
Rarely	74	82.30 ± 10.40
Often	199	75.63 ± 10.55
Frequently	56	76.45 ± 9.23

Note: ^a indicates the independent-sample t test; ^b indicates one-way analysis of variance; * indicates statistically significant difference (P < 0.05)

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