Table 1.
Main sociodemographic characteristics of the participants in the multicenter population survey
| Years of experience (mean, SD) | 22.3 (7.1) |
| Age (mean, SD) | 49.76 (9.29) |
| Sex (%, n) | |
| Male | 36.0 (64) |
| Female | 64.0 (114) |
| Position (%, n) | |
| Head of department | 43.8 (78) |
| Nursing Supervisor | 29.2 (52) |
| Other* | 27.0 (48) |
| Work center (%, n) | |
| Private hospital | 7.3 (13) |
| Public hospital | 83.4 (150) |
| State-subsidized hospital | 8.4 (15) |
| Number of beds (%, n) | |
| Under 200 beds | 14.6 (26) |
| 200–500 beds | 39.3 (70) |
| 501–1000 beds | 30.9 (55) |
| Over 1000 beds | 15.2 (27) |
| Autonomous community (%, n)** | |
| Andalusia | 5.6 (10) |
| Aragon | 3.4 (6) |
| Balearic Islands | 2.8 (5) |
| Canary Islands | 5.6 (10) |
| Castile and Leon | 6.2 (11) |
| Castile La Mancha | 3.9 (7) |
| Catalonia | 14.0 (25) |
| Ceuta and Melilla | 0.6 (1) |
| Community of Madrid | 18.0 (32) |
| Chartered Community of Navarre | 3.4 (6) |
| Valencian Community | 18.0 (32) |
| Extremadura | 2.2 (4) |
| Galicia | 5.1 (9) |
| La Rioja | 1.1 (2) |
| Basque Country | 4.5 (8) |
| Principality of Asturias | 1.7 (3) |
| Region of Murcia | 3.9 (7) |
Bold numbers are the maximum (peak) numbers at the final analysis
*This category included Medical Oncology Section heads and staff from both the Day Hospital Nursing Department and the Clinical Trials Unit
**No response was obtained in hospitals corresponding to Cantabria