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