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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: Status and content of outpatient preoperative education for rectal cancer patients undergoing stoma surgery provided by Japanese wound, ostomy, and continence nurses: a cross-sectional study

  

Preoperative education clinic

 

Total (n = 773)

Yes

(n = 183)

No

(n = 590)

p value

Years of experience as a nurse (± SD)

24.6 (± 6.7)

25.6 (± 7.2)

24.3 (± 6.6)

0.033*

Years of experience as a WOCN1) (± SD)

10.9 (± 5.2)

12.9 (± 6.0)

10.3 (± 4.8)

< 0.001**

Type of hospital

University hospital

110 (14%)

34 (19%)

76 (13%)

0.013*

General hospital

623 (81%)

133 (73%)

490 (83%)

Cancer hospital

26 (3%)

12 (6%)

14 (2%)

Other

2 ( 1%)

2 ( 1%)

6 (1%)

N/A

2 ( 1%)

2 ( 1%)

6 (1%)

Number of beds

<200

102 (13%)

12 ( 6%)

90 (15%)

< 0.001**

200 ~ 499

419 (54%)

78 (43%)

341 (58%)

500 ~ 999

210 (27%)

77 (42%)

133 (22%)

 1000

37 (5%)

14 (8%)

23 (4%)

N/A

5 ( 1%)

2 ( 1%)

3 ( 1%)

Number of stoma surgeries per year2)

0

44 ( 6%)

0 ( 0%)

44 ( 7%)

< 0.001**

1 ~ 10

141 (18%)

22 (12%)

119 (20 $)

11 ~ 50

371 (48%)

81 (44%)

290 (49%)

51 ~ 99

159 (20%)

59 (32%)

100 (17%)

 100

53 ( 7%)

20 (11%)

33 ( 6%)

N/A

5 ( 1%)

1 ( 1%)

4 ( 1%)

  1. 1)Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurse; 2) intestinal stoma (without pediatric)
  2. t-test; chi-square test, *: p < 0.05, **: p < 0.01