Practice area and work demands in nurses' aides: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Age, gender, and marital status, by practice area.

Practice area		45 years or older	Male	Single
	N	Row %	Row %	Row %
Somatic hospital department	840	64.1 **	2.3	22.7 *
Psychiatric hospital department	466	58.2 **	13.7 **	21.5
Paediatric hospital department	115	59.1	0.9	23.5
Nursing home	2750	49.4 **	1.9 **	18.0
Home or apartment unit for the aged	640	50.5	3.1	17.5
Community nurse unit	1003	45.8 **	2.8	20.2
Institution for mentally handicapped	672	45.8 **	8.6 **	19.0
Other	392	53.8	4.8	17.1
Total sample	6485	51.6	3.8	19.2

N = The number of respondents working in each practice area; as the categories are not mutually exclusive, the sum of respondents in each area is higher than the total sample.
Row % = The proportion of respondents with the noted characteristic; for example, the proportion of male respondents in somatic hospital departments was 2.3 %.
* P < 0.01; ** P < 0.001.
The P-values refer to chi square tests, in which respondents working in the noted practice area are compared with respondents not working in this area (all together).

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