Table 2.
Characteristics of the participants, before and after intervention.
| (1) Preintervention questionnaire | ||
|---|---|---|
| Participants' characteristics | All participants | |
| (n = 242 (239)1) | ||
| n | % | |
| Care units | ||
| 1 (ICU) | 18 | 7.4 |
| 2 (PICU) | 32 | 13.2 |
| 3 (NICU) | 56 | 23.1 |
| 4 (pediatric) | 12 | 5.0 |
| 5 (pediatric) | 39 | 16.1 |
| 6 (pediatric) | 16 | 6.6 |
| 7 (ICU) | 21 | 8.7 |
| 8 (ICU) | 48 | 19.8 |
| Gender | ||
| Male | 30 | 12.6 |
| Female | 209 | 87.4 |
| Age | ||
| 19–25 | 52 | 21.7 |
| 26–30 | 52 | 21.8 |
| 31–35 | 36 | 15.1 |
| 36–40 | 28 | 11.7 |
| >40 | 71 | 29.7 |
| Highest educational grade | ||
| College | 99 | 41.4 |
| Certificate | 10 | 4.2 |
| B.S. | 123 | 51.5 |
| M.S. | 3 | 1.3 |
| Other studies | 4 | 1.7 |
| Years of experience | ||
| 0–5 | 79 | 33.1 |
| 6–10 | 48 | 20.1 |
| 11–15 | 44 | 18.4 |
| >20 | 57 | 23.8 |
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| (2) Postintervention questionnaire | ||
| Participants' characteristics2 | All participants | |
| (n = 169) | ||
| n | % | |
|
| ||
| Care units | ||
| 2 (PICU) | 20 | 51.3 |
| 3 (NICU) | 65 | 50.0 |
| 4 (pediatric) | 25 | 83.3 |
| 5 (pediatric) | 36 | 80.0 |
| 6 (pediatric) | 23 | 88.5 |
1Three respondents did not answer the four questions related to sociodemographic characteristics (gender, age, education and experience), reducing the total number of participants for these questions to 239.
2Other sociodemographic data were not collected for this questionnaire.