Table 2.
Final respondent profile by professional role
| Survey Response | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall (n = 606) | Physicians/APPs (n = 88) | Nurses (n = 342) | Respiratory Therapists (n = 176) | ||
| Age, years, median (IQR) | All | 39 (29–46) | 43 (39–50) | 33 (27–43) | 39.5 (29–50) |
| Gender, n (%)* | Woman | 375 (62) | 27 (31) | 247 (72) | 101 (57) |
| Man | 204 (34) | 55 (63) | 86 (25) | 63 (36) | |
| Transgender | 1 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (1) | |
| Prefer not to reply | 8 (1) | 3 (3) | 2 (1) | 3 (2) | |
| No response | 18 (3) | 3 (3) | 7 (2) | 8 (5) | |
| Race, n (%) | White | 530 (87) | 76 (86) | 303 (89) | 151 (86) |
| Black or African American | 4 (1) | 0 (0) | 3 (1) | 1 (1) | |
| Native American, Native Indian, Alaskan Native | 6 (1) | 0 (0) | 4 (1) | 2 (1) | |
| Asian | 17 (3) | 4 (5) | 11 (3) | 2 (1) | |
| Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander | 1 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (0) | 0 (0) | |
| Bi-racial, multi-racial, mixed race | 20 (3) | 4 (5) | 8(2) | 8 (5) | |
| No response | 28 (5) | 4 (5) | 12 (4) | 12 (7) | |
| Ethnicity, n (%) | Non-Hispanic | 544 (90) | 82 (93) | 313 (92) | 149 (85) |
| Hispanic | 39 (6) | 2 (2) | 20 (6) | 17 (10) | |
| No response | 23 (4) | 4 (5) | 9 (3) | 10 (6) | |
| Project role, n (%)* | Site leader/champion (Nurse/RT) | 54 (9) | n/a | 29 (8) | 25 (14) |
| Hospital setting by staffing, n (%)* | Hospitalist | 115 (19) | 23 (26) | 47 (14) | 45 (26) |
| Intensivist | 491 (81) | 65 (74) | 295 (86) | 131 (74) | |
| Experience in clinical practice, years, n (%)* | < 1 year | 22 (4) | 1 (1) | 18 (5) | 3 (2) |
| 1–5 years | 196 (32) | 11 (13) | 128 (37) | 57 (32) | |
| 6–10 years | 119 (20) | 22 (25) | 69 (20) | 28 (16) | |
| > 10 years | 258 (43) | 52 (59) | 125 (37) | 81 (46) | |
| No response | 11 (2) | 2 (2) | 2 (1) | 7 (4) | |
| Experience at current hospital, years, n (%)* | < 1 year | 68 (11) | 11 (13) | 47 (14) | 10 (6) |
| 1–3 years | 155 (26) | 10 (11) | 88 (26) | 57 (32) | |
| 4–6 years | 125 (21) | 21 (24) | 74 (22) | 30 (17) | |
| > 6 years | 251 (41) | 46 (52) | 132 (39) | 73 (41) | |
| No Response | 7 (1) | 0 (0) | 1 (0) | 6 (3) | |
| Times participating in C-SAT/SBT in the past 6 months, n (%)* | Never | 61 (10) | 8 (9) | 28 (8) | 25 (14) |
| Once | 38 (6) | 5 (6) | 14 (4) | 19 (11) | |
| 2–5 times | 120 (20) | 18 (20) | 68 (20) | 34 (19) | |
| > 5 times | 380 (63) | 57 (65) | 230 (67) | 93 (53) | |
| No response | 7 (1) | 0 (0) | 2 (1) | 5 (3) | |
| Survey completion, n (%) | ≤ 2 months from receipt | 527 (87) | 78 (89) | 292 (85) | 157 (89) |
| > 2 months from receipt | 79 (13) | 10 (11) | 50 (15) | 19 (11) | |
Significant difference by professional role across two or more stratum at p < 0.05 Abbreviations: SAT – Spontaneous awakening trial; SBT – spontaneous breathing trial; C-SAT/SBT—coordinated SAT/SBT; y-years; IQR – interquartile range