Table 4.

Variables associated with ‘Nurse-initiated care’ and ‘Technical and radiographic processes’ related to the level of competence among radiographers (n = 406)

Dimension/scales of the dependent variable	Model/independent variable	B	95.0 % CI for B	p-value
Nurse-initiated care (adjusted R2 for model: 0.080)	Age	0.019	0.007 to 0.031	<0.003
	Years in present position	0.008	−0.002 to 0.018	0.111
	Work place	−0.187	−0.404 to 0.030	0.090
Technical and radiographic processes (adjusted R2 for model: 0.066)	Age	0.016	0.005 to 0.028	<0.005
	Years in present position	0.007	−0.002 to 0.017	0.138
	Work place	−0.074	−0.283 to 0.136	0.488
Radiographers’ competence scale (RCS) (adjusted R2 for model: 0.070)	Age	0.016	0.005 to 0.028	<0.007
	Years in present position	0.007	−0.003 to 0.017	0.154
	Work place	−0.187	−0.402 to 0.027	0.087

Variables in the regression analysis: age, years in present position and work place