Incident Reporting Behaviours and Associated Factors among Nurses Working in Gondar University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia

Table 3

Bivariate analysis of factors associated with incident reporting among nurses working in Gondar University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, 2015 ().

Variable	⁢Incident reporting		⁢Odds ratio (95% confidence interval) and value
	Yes	No	Crude odds ratio	value
Sociodemographic factors
Age category
20–29	42	40	1
30–39	28	66	1.41 (0.81–2.48)	0.20
40–49	23	45	1.70 (0.93–3.13)	0.09
50–59	3	31	0.32 (0.09–1.11)	0.07
Sex
Male	46	158	1
Female	50	124	1.39 (0.87–2.20)	0.16
Responsibility of the nurse
Team leader/coordinator	9	11	1
Staff nurse	87	271	0.39 (0.16–0.98)	0.05
Organizational factors
Training on incident reporting
Trained	21	39	1.75 (0.97–3.14)	0.07
Not trained	75	243	1
Availability of guideline
Yes	21	26	2.76 (1.47–5.18)	0.002
No	75	256	1
Availability of reporting format
Yes	18	32	1.80 (0.96–3.39)	0.06
No	78	250	1
Reason to report
To help the patient
Yes	73	131	3.66 (2.17–6.18)	0.000
No	23	151	1
Barriers to incident reporting
Fear of administrative sanctions
Yes	9	82	0.25 (0.12–0.53)	0.000
No	87	200	1
Fear of legal penalties
Yes	6	76	0.18 (0.08–0.43)	0.000
No	90	206	1
Fear of loss of prestige among colleagues
Yes	12	82	0.35 (0.18–0.67)	0.002
No	84	200	1

After summing up the scores of the three outcome variables.