Table 2.
Agreement level with statements about PCD work use by agea.
| Statements about PCD use | <35 years (N=210-212) n (%) |
35-44 years (N=240-244) n (%) |
45-54 years (N=353-356) n (%) |
>54 years (N=424-429) n (%) |
| Use of PCDs at work reduces stress. | 110 (51.9)b,c,d | 83 (34.6)c,d | 84 (23.8) | 90 (21.2) |
| PCD use is beneficial to patient care. | 76 (36.2)c,d | 76 (31.1) | 90 (25.4) | 114 (26.6) |
| Use of PCDs has enabled better coordination of patient care among the health care team. | 73 (34.6)b,c,d | 58 (23.8) | 85 (24.1) | 99 (23.1) |
| PCD use has improved unit cohesion and teamwork. | 52 (24.5)b,c,d | 41 (16.9) | 53 (14.9) | 74 (17.4) |
| PCD use helps me focus on my work. | 30 (14.3) | 36 (14.8) | 57 (16)c | 44 (10.3) |
aWe conducted equality of proportion tests to examine whether each pair of age groups are significantly different in the percentages (strongly) agreeing with the statements above. The significant differences based on the statistical test results are also presented in this table. The cells with superscripts indicate that the corresponding group has a significantly larger proportion of respondents (strongly) agreeing with the corresponding statement compared to each group in the superscript at 5% level of significance.
b35-44 years group.
c45-54 years group.
d>54 years group.