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. 2021 Aug 11;20:142. doi: 10.1186/s12912-021-00664-6

Table. 4.

Characteristics of the sample population concerning the Sl-NPC-SF scale and the four subscales (N = 425)

Variable Factor 1 Factor 2 Factor 3 Factor 4 NPC-SF
M(SD)
Test value / p
Gender
  Male 5.769(1.007) 6.142(1.016) 5.666(0.996) 5.666(1.083) 5.857(0.973)
  Female 5.666(0.889) (U)3342.00 / 0.153 6.142(0.701) (U)4207.00 /0.722 5.444(0.851) (U)2958.50 / 0.016 5.833(0.831) (U)4256.00 / 0.811 5.742(0.757) (U)3739.00 / 0.142
Health facilities
  Primary Health Care 5.692(0.842) 6.285(0.764) 5.333(0.817) 5.666(0.906) 5.685(0.721)
  Secondary Health Care 5.538(0.903) 6.142(0.764) 5.444(0.851) 5.833(0.767) 5.714(0.775)
  Tertiary Health Care 5.846(1.013) 6.166(0.880) 5.666(0.979) 6.000(0.916) 5.866(0.880)
  Social Welfare Institution 5.384(0.668) (H)1.916 / 0.590 6.000(0.757) (H)2.395 / 0.495 5.555(0.731) (H)4.649 / 0.199 5.833(0.668) (H)7.638 / 0.054 5.628(0.645) (H)3.290 / 0.349

F1 – Development leadership and organisation of nursing care; F2 – Value-based nursing care; F3 – Documentation and administration of nursing care; F4 – Nursing care; Median (M); Standard deviation (SD); U value - Mann-Whitney U test; χ2 value - Kruskal Wallis H test; χ2 value - Pearson chi-square test; p value - statistical significance