Neonatal Intensive Care and Child Psychiatry Inpatient Care: Do Different Working Conditions Influence Stress Levels?

Table 1

Demographic and descriptive characteristics of nurses from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and the child and adolescent psychiatry inpatient ward (CAP), respectively.

	NICU; 𝑛=33 (%)	CAP; 𝑛=14 (%)	𝑃 value
Age group, years			n.s.
20–30	7 (21.2)	1 (7.1)
31–40	6 (18.2)	3 (21.4)
41–50	11 (33.3)	5 (35.7)
51–60	9 (27.3)	5 (35.7)
Years of training as a nurse			n.s.
1–5	7 (21.2)	3 (21.4)
6–10	3 (9.1)	1 (7.1)
11–15	3 (9.1)	2 (14.2)
16–20	2 (6.1)	2 (14.2)
>20	18 (54.5)	6 (42.8)
Married or cohabiting	29 (88)	11 (78.5)	n.s.
Children living at home	16 (48)	8 (57)	n.s.
Do not smoke	28 (85)	7 (50)	0.005
Do not use snuff	32 (97)	13 (93)	n.s.