Table 3.
Association between socio-demographic characteristics and attitude level
| Variables | Attitude level, n (%) |
p valuea | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly positive | Positive | Negative | Strongly negative | ||
| Attitude level | 45 (30.0) | 87 (58.0) | 10 (6.7) | 8 (5.3) | |
| Age group, years | 0.436a | ||||
| 20-30 | 33 (30.8) | 61 (57.0) | 9 (8.4) | 4 (3.7) | |
| 31-40 | 7 (21.9) | 21 (65.6) | 1 (3.1) | 3 (9.4) | |
| 41-50 | 5 (50.0) | 4 (40.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (10.0) | |
| 51-60 | 0 (0.0) | 1 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Gender | 0.066a | ||||
| Male | 2 (33.3) | 2 (33.3) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (33.3) | |
| Female | 43 (29.9) | 85 (59.0) | 10 (6.9) | 6 (4.2) | |
| Ethnicity | 0.519a | ||||
| Malay | 38 (28.4) | 78 (58.2) | 10 (7.5) | 8 (6.0) | |
| Non-Malay | 7 (43.8) | 9 (56.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Nursing education level | 0.477a | ||||
| Diploma | 37 (28.0) | 78 (59.1) | 10 (7.6) | 7 (5.3) | |
| Diploma & post basic | 3 (33.3) | 6 (66.7) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Diploma, post basic and degree | 5 (55.6) | 3 (33.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (11.1) | |
| Speciality of work area | <0.001a* | ||||
| Medical | 19 (44.2) | 15 (34.9) | 9 (20.9) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Surgical | 3 (11.5) | 22 (84.6) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (3.8) | |
| Oncology | 22 (39.3) | 30 (53.6) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (7.1) | |
| Obstetrics and gynaecology | 0 (0.0) | 17 (81.0) | 1 (4.8) | 3 (14.3) | |
| Paediatric | 1 (25.0) | 3 (75.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Year of working experience | 0.887a | ||||
| 1-10 | 36 (31.3) | 64 (55.7) | 9 (7.8) | 6 (5.2) | |
| 11-20 | 8 (25.0) | 21 (65.6) | 1 (3.1) | 2 (6.3) | |
| 21-30 | 1 (50.0) | 1 (50.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| 31-40 | 0 (0.0) | 1 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
a
Fisher-exact test,
*
p ≤0.05 was considered to be statistically significant