Research Article
Relationship-Based Care and Behaviours of Residents in Long-Term Care Facilities
Table 2
Caregivers’ characteristics (
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| | Continuous variables | Mean (standard deviation) |
| | Age | 47.3 (3.4) | | Years of experience in the institution | 15.8 (6.5) | | Years working on the patient care unit | 10.5 (8.0) | | Number of months since RBC training | 22.5 (19.4) |
| | Categorical variables | Frequency (%) |
| | Position | | | Patient attendant (orderly) | 5 (83.3) | | Nursing assistant | 1 (16.7) | | Sex | | | Women | 5 (83.3) | | Men | 1 (16.7) | | Work shift | | | Day | 5 (83.3) | | Evening | 1 (16.7) |
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