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Table 3 Socio-demographic characteristics of the study’s primary care nurses

From: Impacts of an online asynchronous continuing professional development toolkit supporting primary care nurses to engage in shared decision-making: a single-group pre-post study

Socio-demographic characteristics

Nurses who completed the baseline survey (N = 165)

Nurses from the 165 who also completed the final survey (N = 69)

Frequency

Frequency

N

%

N

%

Gender

 Female

156

94.5

65

94.2

 Male

7

4.2

3

4.3

 Non-binary

2

1.2

1

1.4

Age a

 30 and under

17

10.3

8

11.6

 31–45

97

58.8

38

55.1

 46–60

48

29.1

22

31.9

 61 and over

2

1.2

1

1.4

Education level

 Nurse

4

2.4

1

1.4

 1st university degree

136

82.4

63

91.3

 2nd university degree

24

14.5

5

7.2

 3rd university degree

1

0.6

0

0

Position in primary care clinic b

 Registered nurse

159

96.3

67

97.1

 Nurse practitioner

3

1.8

2

2.9

Number of years in this position

  < 1 year

29

17.6

5

7.2

 1–5 years

67

40.6

32

46.4

 6–10 years

45

27.3

18

26.1

  > 11 years

24

14.5

14

20.3

  1. a: 1 nurse did not answer the question, b: 3 nurses did not answer the question