Table 2.
Moral distress reported by respondents by group
| Total respondents (N = 207) |
Not familiar with DIT (n = 72) | Familiar with the DIT (n = 70) | Used the DIT (n = 65) |
Pearsons chi2 (p-value) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amount of Moral distress |
2.3, df=8 (0.971) |
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| None at all | 16 (8%) | 4 (6%) | 6 (9%) | 6 (9%) | |
| A small amount | 51 (25%) | 15 (21%) | 20 (29%) | 16 (25%) | |
| A moderate amount | 70 (34%) | 25 (36%) | 23 (33%) | 22 (34%) | |
| A large amount | 47 (23%) | 19 (27%) | 14 (20%) | 14 (22%) | |
| An extremely large amount | 20 (10%) | 7 (10%) | 7 (10%) | 6 (9%) | |
| Change in Moral distress |
9.4, df=8 (0.311) |
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| Significantly decreased | 2 (1%) | 1 (2%) | 0 | 1 (2%) | |
| Somewhat decreased | 6 (3%) | 1 (2%) | 3 (5%) | 2 (3%) | |
| About the same | 21 (11%) | 11 (17%) | 4 (6%) | 6 (10%) | |
| Somewhat increased | 92 (49%) | 27 (42%) | 31 (48%) | 34 (59%) | |
| Significantly increased | 66 (35%) | 25 (38%) | 26 (41%) | 15 (26%) | |
| Moral distress impacting job satisfaction |
12.0, df=8 (0.149) |
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| Not at all | 19 (9%) | 9 (14%) | 7 (11%) | 3 (5%) | |
| A small amount | 42 (20%) | 10 (15%) | 18 (26%) | 14 (22%) | |
| A moderate amount | 45 (22%) | 15 (23%) | 12 (17%) | 18 (28%) | |
| A large amount | 49 (24%) | 15 (23%) | 18 (26%) | 16 (25%) | |
| An extremely large amount | 32 (15%) | 17 (26%) | 9 (13%) | 6 (9%) |