Table 5.

Relationship between the ability of nurses to identify a suspected SD and professional background and knowledge of screening for these disorders.

			Univariate analysis			Multivariate analysis
Professional background and knowledge of chapters on screening SD	N	Number of nurses who already suspected a SD	OR	CI95	P	OR	CI95	P
Diploma			2.0	0.9–4.6	0.10			0.14
-SGN	64	32				1.9	0.8–4.5
-PN	39	13
Trained			2.1	0.9–4.6	0.06	1.8	0.8–4.2	0.17
-Yes	49	26
-No	54	19
Higher level experience			0.9	0.4–2.0	0.77			–
-Yes	52	22
-No	51	23
Release year			0.6	0.3–1.3	0.16	0.4	0.2–1.1	0.06
-≥ 2005	56	21
-< 2005	47	24
Chapter “brain”			1.6	0.7–3.5	0.28			–
-Yes	65	31
-No	38	14
Chapter “cough”			2.6	1.1–5.9	0.02	2.1	0.8–5.6	0.14
-Yes	63	33
-No	50	12
Chapter “voice”			3.5	1.5–8.3	0.004	3.5	1.4–8.1	0.005
-Yes	61	34
-No	42	11

PN: patented nurse, SGN; State Graduate Nurse; trained: claiming to have already received training related to the subject; higher level experience: having previously worked at a higher level of care; < 2005: out of training school before 2005; ≥ 2005: out of training school from 2005; OR: Odds Ratio, CI: confidence interval.