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

Table 7 Prediction model for the overall PSS (Perceived Stress Scale) scores

Model term	Coefficient	P value	Importance
Intercept	18.756	< 0.001
AFS category		< 0.001	0.674
Low	-3.582***
Average	-2.463***
High	0 ^a
Working shift		0.034	0.195
Double shift	-2.144**
Irregular shift	-0.288*
Regular evening	0.029*
Regular morning	0 ^a
Hospital Unit		0.375	0.131
Emergency Care unit	0.619*
General Critical Care unit	0.655*
Medical Critical Care unit	1.566*
Other units	2.114*
Surgical Cardiac	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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