Table 3.

Mediating effect of nursing informatics competency on the relationship between nursing professionalism and perception of patient privacy protection.

Outcome	Predictors	B	SE	P	LLCI	ULCI
Nursing informatics competency	Constant	99.08	17.43	<0.001	64.74	133.42
	Nursing professionalism	0.18	0.05	0.001	0.07	0.30
	R2 = 0.076, F = 3.256, p = 0.004
Perception of Patient privacy protection	Constant	81.69	13.17	<0.001	55.73	107.65
	Nursing professionalism	0.09	0.04	0.021	0.01	0.17
	Nursing informatics competency	0.18	0.04	<0.001	0.09	0.27
	R2 = 0.326, F = 16.180, p < 0.001

Covariate variables = age, gender, grade, religion, subjective perception of the need of patient privacy protection education, and education of patient privacy protection-related variables; LLCI = low limit confidence interval; ULCI = upper limit confidence interval.