Table 1.
Comparison of clinical competence in terms of demographic characteristics nurses.
| Demographic variables | Number (%) | Competency scores (Mean ± SD) |
t | P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | Female | 119 (76.8) | 76.05 ± 1.71 | −1.648 | 0.103 |
| Male | 36 (23.2) | 76.44 ± 1.07 | |||
| Age (year) | 20–30 | 34 (21.9) | 75.77 ± 1.60 | 1.198 | 0.263 |
| 31–40 | 107 (69.0) | 76.29 ± 1.57 | |||
| ≥41 | 14 (9.0) | 75.87 ± 1.68 | |||
| Education | BSc. | 124 (80.0) | 76.07 ± 1.63 | −1.026 | 0.306 |
| MSc. | 31 (20.0) | 76.40 ± 1.45 | |||
| Working experience (year) | 1–5 | 37 (23.9) | 76.32 ± 1.59 | 1.555 | 0.203 |
| 6–10 | 42 (27.1) | 76.21 ± 1.66 | |||
| 11–15 | 55 (35.5) | 75.80 ± 1.64 | |||
| ≥16 | 21 (13.5) | 76.58 ± 1.21 | |||