Table 1.
Sociodemographic Characteristics of the Respondents.
| Total (N = 265) | Government Hospital (N = 122) | Nongovernment Hospital (N = 143) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | % | M | SD | % | M | SD | % | M | SD | χ2/t |
| Age, years | 37.57 | 9.44 | 36.20 | 9.23 | 38.79 | 9.49 | 2.19a | |||
| Gender | 13.14b | |||||||||
| Male | 14.5 | 23.0 | 7.1 | |||||||
| Professional education | 22.06b | |||||||||
| Practical and registered nursing | 30.2 | 20.4 | 38.6 | |||||||
| Undergraduate student | 1.5 | 3.3 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Undergraduate | 56.1 | 56.6 | 55.7 | |||||||
| Graduate | 12.2 | 19.7 | 5.7 | |||||||
| Marital status | 4.16a | |||||||||
| Married/lives with a partner | 72.5 | 66.4 | 77.6 | |||||||
| Place of birth | 17.90b | |||||||||
| Europe/America | 37.0 | 50.0 | 25.9 | |||||||
| Asia/Africa | 2.6 | 0.8 | 4.2 | |||||||
| Israel | 60.4 | 49.2 | 69.9 | |||||||
| Years in Israelc | 18.03 | 8.58 | 17.18 | 7.74 | 19.31 | 9.67 | 1.22 | |||
| Professional experience | 13.42 | 9.76 | 12.27 | 9.93 | 14.43 | 9.53 | 1.78 | |||
| Years in the ward | 8.83 | 7.09 | 6.93 | 6.61 | 10.48 | 7.10 | 4.13b | |||
Abbrevaiations: M, mean; SD, standard deviation; χ2, chi-square.
a P < .05.
b P < .001.
c Includes only those who were not born in Israel.