Research Article
Challenges in the Clinical Environment: The Saudi Student Nurses’ Experience
Table 4
Relationship of age, yearly academic level, and GPA towards clinical challenges and implications.
| Challenges and implications | Spearman rank correlation coefficient | value | Remarks |
| Age | | | | Insufficient competence | −0.103 | 0.128 | Not significant | Ambiguous evaluation | 0.138 | 0.041 | Significant | Unsupportive learning environment | 0.024 | 0.727 | Not significant | Implications to learning outcomes | 0.080 | 0.235 | Not significant |
| Academic level | | | | Insufficient competence | −0.153 | 0.023 | Significant | Ambiguous evaluation | −0.009 | 0.890 | Not significant | Unsupportive learning environment | −0.093 | 0.168 | Not significant | Implications to learning outcomes | −0.039 | 0.565 | Not significant |
| GPA | | | | Insufficient competence | −0.013 | 0.850 | Not significant | Ambiguous evaluation | 0.100 | 0.138 | Not significant | Unsupportive learning environment | 0.086 | 0.206 | Not significant | Implications to learning outcomes | 0.155 | 0.021 | Significant |
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p value significant at < 0.05. |