Alarm fatigue and perceived stress among critical care nurses in the intensive care units: Palestinian perspectives

Table 6 Prediction model for the overall AFS (Alarm Fatigue Scale) scores

Model term	Coefficient	P value	Importance
Intercept	26.377	< 0.001
PSS category		< 0.001	0.689
Low	-5.533***
Average	-4.706***
High	0 ^a
Nurse-to-patient ratio		0.034	0.176
1: 1	-3.715*
1: 2	-1.799*
1: 3	0.063*
1: 4	-3.261*
1: ≥5	0 ^a
Gender		0.024	0.085
Female	1.732**
Male	0 ^a
Experience		0.216	0.051
< 5 years	0.910*
5–10 years	1.731*
> 10 years	0 ^a

^a These coefficients are set to 0 because they are redundant (the coefficients of the other levels are interpreted as differences from this coefficient)
*** P ≤ 0.01, ** P ≤ 0.05, * P > 0.05: tests the difference between this coefficient and the coefficient of the last category that is set to 0

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