TABLE 2.
Bivariate Association between “Personally made an error when administering medication” and independent variables
| Variable (dependent): Personally made an error when administering medication (N = 485, no: n = 211, yes: n = 202, missing: n = 72) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Categorical variables | ||||||
| Variables (independent) | No | Yes | Chi2 | |||
| n | % | n | % | Total | p | |
| How long ago was your last medication training? | ||||||
| No training or over 2 years ago | 46 | 38.0% | 75 | 62.0% | 121 | 0.001 |
| Less than 2 years ago | 157 | 55.7% | 125 | 44.3% | 282 | |
| Type of work contract? | ||||||
| Employed part time | 91 | 49.5% | 93 | 50.5% | 184 | 0.353 |
| Employed full time | 119 | 54.1% | 101 | 45.9% | 220 | |
| (East) or (West) German federal states? | ||||||
| West | 163 | 48.7% | 172 | 51.3% | 335 | 0.040 |
| East | 48 | 61.5% | 30 | 38.5% | 78 | |
| DCP used | ||||||
| Rarely | 85 | 36.6% | 147 | 63.4% | 232 | <0.001 |
| Frequently | 79 | 66.9% | 39 | 33.1% | 118 | |
| Metric variables | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables (independent) | No | Yes | t‐Test | ||||
| n | mean | SD | n | mean | SD | p | |
| Years of work experience | 207 | 18.1 | 10.3 | 200 | 18.3 | 10.5 | 0.863 |
| Number of patients per shift | 196 | 15.0 | 9.3 | 185 | 15.7 | 6.7 | 0.436 |
Abbreviations: Mean, arithmetic mean value; SD, standard deviation.
The bold values indicate significance of p < .05.