Action-Oriented Study Circles Facilitate Efforts in Nursing Homes to “Go from Feeding to Serving”: Conceptual Perspectives on Knowledge Translation and Workplace Learning

Table 5

Comparisons between staff members who had participated in study circles (𝑛=74) and those not (𝑛=115).

	Study circles
	Non-participants, 𝑛=115	Participants, 𝑛=74	𝑃-value
Age, mean (SD)	45.7 (9.7)	47.5 (10.0)	0.241^(1)
Gender, men/women %	3/97	6/94	0.286^(2)
Profession, %			<0.0005^(2)
Auxiliary nurses or nursing assistants	75	86
Cook, kitchen helpers	0	11
Registered nurses	20	3
Home care, auxiliary nurses	5	0
Number of years in current workplace, %			0.677^(3)
Less than one year	3	0
One to five years	13	8
Six to ten years	15	16
Eleven to fifteen years	12	16
Sixteen to twenty years	10	11
More than twenty years	47	49
Knowledge, %			0.044^(3)
I have sufficient/great knowledge	63	69
I feel insecure whether my knowledge is sufficient or not	33	31
I do not have sufficient knowledge	4	0
The management is engaged in and takes into account ideas regarding food and mealtimes, %			0.009^(3)
Completely/partly agree	66	80
Can’t decide	23	10
Completely/partly disagree	11	10

⁽¹⁾𝑡-test.
⁽²⁾Chi-square test.
⁽³⁾Mann Whitney U test.