Table 3.
Socio-demographic associations with Moral Distress Scale-Revised (MDS-R) composite scores.
| Categorical variables | MDS-R composite |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Mean (SD) |
p a | ||
| Yes | No | |||
| Nurse profession (v physician) | 171 | 72.5 (39.4) | 57.4 (36.7) | 0.040 |
| Female gender | 168 | 74.1 (40.2) | 55.5 (33.8) | 0.010 |
| Married/living with partner | 169 | 70.2 (41.6) | 71.1 (36.8) | 0.706 |
| Lives alone | 168 | 67.4 (41.6) | 71.3 (39.5) | 0.517 |
| Children living at home | 168 | 71.4 (42.0) | 69.6 (38.2) | 0.855 |
| Full-time worker | 166 | 69.0 (40.4) | 76.9 (34.0) | 0.255 |
| Continuous variables |
n
|
Correlation coefficient |
p b | |
| Age | 165 | 0.099 | 0.209 | |
| Years qualified | 165 | 0.180 | 0.021 | |
a
Mann–Whitney U test.
b
Spearman’s rho test. Significant results are indicated in bold.