Table 2.
Descriptives on nursing student's commitment to study nursing and intention-to-leave.
| All students (N = 1079)⁎ |
Group comparison |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) | Frequencies (%)⁎⁎⁎ |
Internship (N = 634) |
Non-internship (N = 445) |
Mean difference |
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| Completely not agree | Not agree | Neutral | Agree | Completely agree | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | [95%CI] | ||
| Commitment † | 4.06 (0.66) | 4.02 (0.67) | 4.11 (0.65) | 0.08 [-0.16; 0.00] | |||||
| Proud to be nursing student | 4.49 (0.74) | 0.6 | 1.1 | 7.9 | 29.7 | 60.6 | 4.48 (0.74) | 4.49 (0.76) | -0.01 [-0.10; 0.08] |
| Presenting themselves as nursing student | 3.65 (1.09) | 4.4 | 10.7 | 23.7 | 37.3 | 23.8 | 3.64 (1.08) | 3.68 (1.11) | -0.18 [-0.18; 0.09] |
| Satisfied with choice to study nursing | 4.26 (0.91) | 1.4 | 3.3 | 13.1 | 31.9 | 50.3 | 4.19 (0.96) | 4.37 (0.82) | -0.17 [-0.28; -0.07]⁎⁎ |
| Comparable personal and program values | 3.83 (0.89) | 1.9 | 3.3 | 28.7 | 42.4 | 23.7 | 3.79 (0.90) | 3.89 (0.88) | -0.10 [-0.21; 0.01] |
| Intention-to-leave † | 1.64 (0.83) | 1.65 (0.82) | 1.63 (0.84) | 0.02 [-0.08; 0.12] | |||||
| Exploring other study programs | 1.89 (1.19) | 55.8 | 17.3 | 12.8 | 10.4 | 3.7 | 1.94 (1.23) | 1.82 (1.14) | 0.12 [-0.02; 0.27] |
| Intention to leave the nursing program | 1.55 (0.96) | 69.2 | 14.5 | 9.7 | 5.3 | 1.3 | 1.55 (0.97) | 1.55 (0.94) | 0.00 [-0.11; 0.11] |
| Intention to leave next academic year | 1.48 (0.92) | 72.7 | 14.3 | 7.4 | 3.8 | 1.9 | 1.45 (0.89) | 1.52 (0.97) | -0.08 [-0.19; 0.04] |
† range 1 to 5.
⁎
p < .05.
⁎⁎
p < .01.
⁎⁎⁎
p < .001.