Table 1.
Characteristics of study participants
| All N (%) |
Physicians N (%) |
Nurses N (%) |
Male N (%) |
Female N (%) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vocation—education level | |||||
| Physician—specialist | 137 (31.3) | – | – | 60 (59.4) | 77 (23.2) |
| Nurse—high school graduate | 159 (36.3) | – | – | 23 (22.8) | 134 (40.4) |
| Nurse—college graduate | 114 (26.0) | – | – | 15 (14.9) | 96 (28.9) |
| Nurse—university graduate | 28 (6.4) | – | – | 3 (3.0) | 25 (7.5) |
| ICU type | |||||
| Surgical | 219 (50.0) | 66 (48.2) | 153 (50.8) | 56 (55.5) | 161 (48.5) |
| Internal medicine | 54 (12.3) | 18 (13.1) | 36 (12.0) | 13 (12.9) | 40 (12.1) |
| Neurological | 75 (17.1) | 23 (16.8) | 52 (17.3) | 13 (12.9) | 62 (18.7) |
| Multidisciplinary | 90 (20.6) | 30 (21.9) | 60 (19.9) | 19 (18.8) | 69 (20.8) |
| Work in ICU | |||||
| Every day | 330 (75.3) | 61 (44.6) | 269 (89.4) | 69 (68.3) | 256 (77.1) |
| Occasional | 84 (19.2) | 75 (54.7) | 9 (3.0) | 31 (30.7) | 53 (16.0) |
| Did not answer | 24 (5.5) | 1 (0.7) | 23 (7.6) | 1 (1.0) | 23 (6.9) |
| Hospital type | |||||
| Clinical | 384 (87.7) | 117 (85.4) | 267 (88.7) | 91 (90.1) | 289 (87.1) |
| General | 54 (12.3) | 20 (14.6) | 34 (11.3) | 10 (9.9) | 43 (13.0) |