Table 5.
High risk of error - association between the number of incorrect answers which the participants were certain were correct, totally and for each discipline, and the participants’ background characteristics and knowledge
| Total | Pharmacology | Drug management | Drug dose calculations | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B (95% CI) | P-value | B (95% CI) | P-value | B (95% CI) | P-value | B (95% CI) | P-value | |
| Study group (student - > nurse) | 0.80 (−0.19: 1.79) | 0.11 | 0.14 (−0.17: 0.46) | 0.37 | 0.28 (−0.40: 0.97) | 0.41 | 0.07 (−0.32: 0.47) | 0.71 |
| Age (years) | 0.005 (−0.03: 0.04) | 0.79 | <−0.01(−0.02:0.01) | 0.42 | 0.01 (−0.01: 0.04) | 0.34 | <0.01 (−0.01: 0.02) | 0.44 |
| Gender (men- > women) | −0.99 (−2.06: 0.08) | 0.07 | −0.35 (−0.71:0.001) | 0.05 | −0.42 (−1.11: 0.27) | 0.23 | −0.12 (−0.51: 0.27) | 0.55 |
| Childhood outside Norway | 1.87 (0.53: 3.20) | 0.006 | 0.46 ( 0.01: 0.90) | 0.04 | 1.11 ( 0.26: 1.96) | 0.01 | 0.33 (−0.16: 0.82) | 0.18 |
| Maths beyond 1 year USS1) | −0.47 (−1.12: 0.19) | 0.16 | −0.19 (−0.41: 0.03) | 0.09 | −0.24 (−0.66: 0.18) | 0.26 | −0.03 (−0.26: 0.21) | 0.83 |
| Other education prior to nurse | 0.31 (−0.35:0.97) | 0.35 | 0.15 (−0.07: 0.37) | 0.19 | <0.01 (−0.43:0.42) | 0.98 | 0.16 (−0.08: 0.41) | 0.18 |
| Part time job | *) | *) | *) | *) | ||||
| Sense of coping3) | −1.66 (−2.98:-0.33) | 0.01 | −0.36 (−0.80: 0.08) | 0.11 | −1.14 (−1.99:-0.29) | 0.01 | −0.07 (−0.55: 0.42) | 0.78 |
| Sense of wellbeing/self esteem2) | 0.59 (−0.61: 1.80) | 0.33 | 0.23 (−0.17: 0.63) | 0.25 | 0.32 (−0.46: 0.10) | 0.42 | 0.01 (−0.45: 0.43) | 0.96 |
| Knowledge – total | −0.15 (−0.19:-0.11) | <0.001 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Pharmacology | - | −0.03 (−0.04:-0.02) | <0.001 | - | - | - | - | |
| Drug management | - | - | −0.07 (−0.09:-0.06) | <0.001 | - | - | ||
| Drug dose calculations | - | - | - | - | −0.03 (−0.04:-0.03) | <0.001 | ||
| Frequency of medication tasks3) | *) | *) | - | - | - | - | ||
| Dispensing | *) | - | - | |||||
| Distribution | 0.12 (−0.16: 0.39) | 0.41 | - | - | ||||
| Drug dose calculations | - | - | 0.15 (0.02:0.29) | 0.03 | ||||
| R square change | 0.15 | 0.13 | 0.17 | 0.14 | ||||
Standard linear regression.
*)Omitted; correlation with study group >0.7 [19].
1)Upper secondary school.
2)General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) score 0–3, 0 = better than usual, 1 = as usual, 2 = worse than usual, 3 = much worse than usual.
3)Frequency: 0 = less than monthly, 1 = monthly, 2 = Weekly, 3 = every working day.