The relationship between job stress and the perception of patient safety culture among Palestinian hospital nurses

Table 3 Associations between PSC, NSS score, and participant characteristics

Variable	Categories	N	PSC and Participant Characteristics			NSS and participant characteristics
Variable	Categories	N	Mean rank	Median [Q1–Q3] ^a	p-value	Mean ± SD ^b	F	p-value
Gender	Male	196	174.63	101.00 [92.00–111.75]	0.492	42.2 ± 15.6	1.559	< 0.001*
Gender	Female	159	182.16	100.00 [94.00–113.00]	0.492	36.7 ± 14	1.559	< 0.001*
Age group	20 to 29 years	191	178.98	100.00 [93.00–113.00]	0.365	38.7 ± 14.6	1.453	0.235
	30 to 39 years	143	172.54	100.00 [93.00–111.00]		41.3 ± 16
	40 years and above	21	206.24	102.00 [96.50–118.00]		37.5 ± 13.4
Marital Status	Single	132	172.43	100.00 [93.00–112.00]	0.172	39.6 ± 1.6	0.503	0.605
	Married	221	180.15	101.00 [94.00–112.50]		39.7 ± 15.5
	Divorced	2	44.50	75.00 [57.00–.]		50.5 ± 9.2
Income	From 1000 to 3000	78	161.24	97.50 [92.00–108.75]	< 0.001*	36.3 ± 14.6	5.841	0.003*
	From 3100 to 5000	244	174.33	100.00 [93.00–111.00]		41.5 ± 15.1
	Over 5000 NIS	33	244.76	112.00 [102.00–124.50]		34.4 ± 14.1
Academic Level	Diploma	71	165.05	97.00 [94.00–111.00]	0.419	34.6 ± 15.5	5.184	0.006*
	Bachelor	258	180.14	101.00 [93.00–112.25]		40.9 ± 14.9
	Master	26	192.15	101.50 [93.00–118.50]		42.1 ± 13.5
Total Respondents		355

N: Number (frequency), Q1-Q3: first quartile-third quartile, SD: standard deviation
*Significance levelp < 0.05
^a: Mann‒Whitney U and Kruskal‒Wallis H tests were employed to measure associations with the HSOPSC total score since the data of the HSOPSC tool was not normally distributed
^b: T-tests and one-way ANOVA were employed to measure associations with the NSS total score since the data of the NSS tool was normally distributed

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