Research Article
Similarities and Differences between Nurses’ and Physicians’ Clinical Leadership Behaviours: A Quantitative Cross-Sectional Study
Table 2
Descriptive statistics of background characteristics, leadership, and outcomes.
| | | Categories | Range of scale | Physicians (n = 100) | Nurses (n = 329) | | Percent or mean (SD) | Percent or mean (SD) |
| | Gender | Male | | (45.0%) | (5.5%) | | Female | | (39.0%) | (80.5%) | | Unknown | | (16.0%) | (14.0%) |
| | Formal leadership function | Yes | | (24.0%) | (2.1%) | | No | | (72.0%) | (97.0%) | | Unknown | | (4.0%) | (0.9%) |
| | Years working in profession | 0–5 | | (23.0%) | (28.7%) | | 5–15 | | (30.0%) | (27.8%) | | >15 | | (32.0%) | (31.8%) | | Unknown | | (15.0%) | (11.9%) |
| | Years working in hospital | 0–5 | | (29.5%) | (29.8%) | | 5–15 | | (31.3%) | (27.1%) | | >15 | | (2.0%) | (31.3%) | | Unknown | | (14%) | (11.8%) |
| | Clinical leadership | | 1–5 | 4.00 (0.41) | 4.08 (0.36) |
| | Global leadership | | 2–10 | 6.62 (1.63) | 5.99 (1.87) |
| | Job satisfaction | | 1–100 | 80.69 (13.28) | 79.95 (11.92) |
| | Workload | | 1–100 | 67.83 (19.70) | 68.42 (21.11) |
| | Bridge building | | 1–5 | 3.48 (0.47) | 3.61 (0.61) |
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