Do multiple personal roles promote working energetically in female nurses? A cross-sectional study of relevant factors promoting work engagement in female nurses

Okada, Nagisa; Yabase, Kosuke; Kobayashi, Toshio; Okamura, Hitoshi

doi:10.1186/s12199-019-0810-z

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Table 1 Subject Attributes

From: Do multiple personal roles promote working energetically in female nurses? A cross-sectional study of relevant factors promoting work engagement in female nurses

Item	All subjects (N = 612)			Subjects with multiple roles (N = 262)					Subjects without multiple roles(N = 350)					p
	Median	Range		Median	Range		Percentile		Median	Range		Percentile
	Median	Min	Max	Median	Min	Max	25	75	Median	Min	Max	25	75
Age (years)	34.0	22	63	39.5	24	63	33.0	46.0	28.0	22	59	25.0	38.0	< 0.001 ^a
Years of experience (years)	12.0	1	42	15.0	1	42	9.8	21.0	5.0	1	37	3.0	14.0	< 0.001 ^a
Frequency of night shifts per month (time)	4.0	0	8	1.0	0	7	0.0	4.0	5.0	0	8	3.8	5.0	< 0.001 ^a
		N	%				N	%				N	%
Position
Principal		24	3.9				13	5.0				11	3.1	0.351^b
Chief		46	7.5				23	8.8				23	6.6
Staff		539	88.1				224	85.5				315	90.0
Other		3	0.5				2	0.8				1	0.3
Type of employment
Regular member of staff		567	92.6				221	84.4				346	98.9	< 0.001^b
Non-regular member of staff		45	7.4				41	15.6				4	1.1	< 0.001^b
Department
Outpatient department		157	25.7				113	43.1				44	12.6	< 0.001^c
Ward		398	65.0				132	50.4				266	76.0
Other		57	9.3				17	6.5				40	11.4
Shift format
Day shift		177	28.9				127	48.5				50	14.3	< 0.001^b
Three-shift system		4	0.7				0	0.0				4	1.1
Two-shift system		398	65.0				118	45.0				280	80.0
Other		33	5.4				17	6.5				16	4.6
Marital status
Unmarried		351	57.4				1	0.4				350	100.0	—
Married		227	37.1				227	86.6				0	0.0
Divorced		29	4.7				29	11.1				0	0.0
Bereavement		5	0.8				5	1.9				0	0.0
Presence or absence of a spouse
Presence of a spouse		—	—				227	86.6				—	—	—
Absence of a spouse		—	—				35	13.4				—	—	—
Cohabitation status with spouse (N = 227)
Living together		—	—				212	93.4				—	—	—
Living separately		—	—				15	6.6				—	—	—
Employment of spouse (N = 227)
At work		—	—				224	98.7				—	—	—
Out of work		—	—				3	1.3				—	—	—
Presence or absence of children
Presence of children		—	—				196	74.8				—	—	—
Absence of children		—	—				66	25.2				—	—	—
Presence or absence of children under school age (N = 196)
Presence of children under school age		―	—				72	36.7				—	—	—
Absence of children under school age		―	—				124	63.3				—	—	—
Number of children				2.0	1	7	1.0	2.0
Number of children under school age				1.0	0	3	1.0	2.0

^aComparison of subjects with and without multiple roles using Mann-Whitney U test
^bComparison of subjects with and without multiple roles using Fisher’s exact test
^cComparison of subjects with and without multiple roles using chi-square test

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