Table 6.

Correlation between respondent characteristics and participation in at least one training and education programme

Variable	Description	Training and education programme		P
		No	Yes
Area of employment	Health-care provision	448	314	0.506
		58.8%	41.2%
	Health administration	84	51
		62.2%	37.8%
Employment position	Leader	26	93	<0.001
		21.8%	78.2%
	Employee	506	272
		65.0%	35.0%
Sex	Male	82	94	<0.001
		46.6%	53.4%
	Female	443	263
		62.7%	37.3%
Level of education	Secondary	299	86	<0.001
		77.7%	22.3%
	Junior/professional college	162	155
		51.1%	48.9%
	University	20	81
		19.8%	80.2%
	MSc or PhD	4	30
		11.8%	88.2%
Area of work	Medical professional	33	70	<0.001
		32.0%	68.0%
	Nursing professional	333	176
		65.4%	34.6%
	Health administration	107	109
		49.5%	50.5%
Age		mean = 38.3	mean = 40.0	0.016
		(SD = 10.1)	(SD = 9.8)
Length of employment		mean = 15.3	mean = 15.0	0.692
		(SD = 10.7)	(SD = 10.1)
Number of subordinate employees (leader) or of employees (employee)		mean = 28.0	mean = 24.6	0.185
		(SD = 41.8)	(SD = 24.3)
Number of years in leading position		mean = 7.8	mean = 8.7	0.593
		(SD = 5.8)	(SD = 7.1)

Descriptive variables: frequency, category shares and Fisher’s exact test statistics; numeric variables: mean, standard deviation and Student’s t-test statistics; SD, standard deviation.