Research Article
Communication Training Improves Sense of Performance Expectancy of Public Health Nurses Engaged in Long-Term Elderly Prevention Care Program
Table 1
The characteristics of participants.
| | | Supervised group
| Seminar group
| Control group
| ANOVA* or
chi-square test
value |
| | Public health nurse | | | | | | Age, mean (SD) | 46.1 (9.0) | 45.0 (10.4) | 41.1 (8.7) | 0.123 | | Gender | | | | | | Female, (%) | 15 (93.8) | 22 (91.7) | 38 (95.0) | 0.529 | | Male, (%) | 1 (6.2) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (5.0) | | | Unknown, (%) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (8.3) | 0 (0.0) | | | Licenses, (%) | | | | | | Public health nurse | 4 (25.0) | 5 (22.7) | 6 (15.0) | 0.614 | | Nurse | 14 (87.5) | 20 (90.9) | 38 (95.0) | 0.610 | | Care manager | 7 (43.8) | 10 (45.5) | 13 (32.5) | 0.537 | | Supervisor of care manager | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (2.5) | 0.618 |
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| | Service users | | | | | | Age, mean (SD) | 76.5 (8.3) | 77.9 (6.5) | 78.3 (6.4) | 0.231 | | Gender (female), (%) | 55 (66.5) | 58 (68.2) | 76 (78.4) | 0.128 | | Category of certification, (%) | | | | 0.683 | | Specific elderly individuals | 30 (35.7) | 32 (37.6) | 29 (29.9) | | | Support level 1 | 14 (16.7) | 15 (17.6) | 17 (17.5) | | | Support level 2 | 34 (40.5) | 35 (41.2) | 50 (51.5) | | | Unknown | 6 (7.1) | 3 (3.5) | 1 (1.0) | | | BI†, mean (SD) | 97.6 (5.3) | 98.0 (4.9) | 97.9 (5.6) | 0.993 | | Number of comorbidity, mean (SD) | 3.0 (1.8) | 3.3 (2.0) | 3.6 (1.9) | 0.107 | | Live alone, (%) | 25 (29.8) | 32 (37.6) | 46 (47.4) | 0.051 | | Depression diagnosis, (%) | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0.780 |
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*ANOVA: analysis of variance.
†BI: Barthel ADL Index score.
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