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Table 4 Ranked means showing level of importance of factors encouraging participants’ decision to strike

From: ‘Enough is enough’: a mixed methods study on the key factors driving UK NHS nurses’ decision to strike

Factor

M

SD

Patient Safety

5.85

1.67

Staff Shortages

5.57a

1.49

Pay

4.32a

2.01

Unmanageable work demands

3.87b

2.31

Underfunding of the NHS

3.20b,c

1.94

Perspectives of the RCN and/or my colleagues

.35c

1.09

Other UK services going on strike

.21

.71

  1. N = 468. Levels of importance were ranked from 1 (least important) to 7 (most important), with those factors not chosen coded as 0 (not important). Only 1 factor could be chosen per rank. Factors are displayed in descending order with higher means indicating higher level of importance. Means sharing subscripts are significantly different from each other at α = .05. The p value for each was p = <.001
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BMC Nursing

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