Table 3.
The total mean (SD)of moral distress (frequency and intensity) and moral courage on the basis of demographic variables
| Variables | Moral distress |
Moral courage | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency | Intensity | |||
| Age | p | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.887 |
| Gender | Male | 34.50 (4.70) | 38.30 (5.75) | 61.15 (14.50) |
| Female | 46.52 (15.62) | 44.84 (9.70) | 59.47 (8.24) | |
| p | 0.001 | 0.003 | 0.428 | |
| Marital status | Single | 39 (12.04) | 42.12 (7.93) | 60.45 (13.06) |
| Married | 46.21 (15.55) | 44.50 (9.76) | 59.52 (8.36) | |
| p | 0.030 | 0.252 | 0.633 | |
| Education level | Bachelor degree | 45.16 (15.11) | 44.17 (9.49) | 59.57 (9.08) |
| Master degree | 52.12 (20.71) | 46.12 (12.54) | 61 (5.26) | |
| p | 0.209 | 0.573 | 0.661 | |
| Employment type | Permanent | 51.66 (16.45) | 45.22 (8.06) | 58.84 (8.25) |
| Provisional contract | 44.86 (15.83) | 44.96 (11.18) | 59.40 (7.17) | |
| Task plan | 37.86 (5.26) | 43.80 (8.06) | 63.93 (16.34) | |
| Contractual | 42.42 (13.13) | 41.74 (7.16) | 59.59 (10.02) | |
| p | 0.003 | 0.229 | 0.273 | |
| Work experience (year) | 1-5 | 43.07 (14.29) | 43.42 (8.30) | 59.90 (9.65) |
| 6-10 | 44.37 (14.96) | 43.46 (9.62) | 60 (10.02) | |
| 11-15 | 48.55 (16.45) | 45.67 (10.45) | 58.83 (6.73) | |
| 16-20 | 62 (14.67) | 50 (12.70) | 61 (7.74) | |
| >20 | 37.25 (1.25) | 46 (8.04) | 58 (6.16) | |
| p | 0.038 | 0.418 | 0.924 | |