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Table 3 Socio-demographic characteristics of the sample population of professionals

From: Design and validation of a questionnaire to assess organizational culture in French hospital wards

 

Orderlies

Nurses

Medical doctors

N =362

N =361

N =136

 

Yes

%

Yes

%

Yes

%

Women

334

93.8

332

92.5

57

42.2

Age

 Average (standard deviation)

39 (9)

-

37 (9)

-

42 (11)

-

 Median (min-max)

40 (20–59)

-

35 (21–61)

-

42 (23–65)

-

 From 20 to 29

68

19.8

106

30.6

26

19.3

 From 30 to 39

103

30.0

118

34.0

32

23.7

 From 40 to 49

110

32.1

77

22.2

38

28.1

  > = 50 years of age

62

18.1

46

13.3

39

28.9

Time slot

 Daytime only

291

81.5

228

63.9

-

-

 Nights only

42

11.8

59

16.5

-

-

 Day and night

24

6.7

70

19.6

-

-

Status

 Permanent

254

71.6

254

71.6

-

-

 Locum tenens

28

9.8

28

9.8

-

-

 Interim staff

5

1.9

5

1.9

-

-

Seniority in the service

 Average (standard deviation)

12.8 (9.7)

-

5.5 (6)

 

14.6 (10.6)

-

 Median (min-max)

10 (1–40)

-

4 (0–31)

 

13 (0–36)

-

 From 1 to 10

166

50.6

279

85.1

50

40.7

 From 11 to 20

82

25.0

36

11.0

32

26.0

 From 21 to 30

61

18.6

12

3.6

32

26.0

 From 31 to 40

19

5.8

1

0.3

9

7.3

Continuous education (during professional activity)

 Less than one year

203

58.2

237

66.8

109

80.7

 From 1 to 5 years

110

31.5

87

24.5

10

7.4

 From 5 to 10 years

11

3.2

8

2.3

0

0.0

 Over to 10 years

2

0.6

0

0.0

0

0.0

 No continuous education

23

6.6

23

6.5

16

11.9

  1. Most represented medical specialities were cardiology (19.8 %), geriatrics (13.2 %), internal medicine (13.2 %), and also though to a lesser extent, nephrology (9.9 %) and hepato-gastro-enterology (9.9 %). Doctors’ positions were ventilated as follows: service head doctors (13.2 %), university professors (PU) or university professors/ hospital clinicians (PU-PH) (36.4 %), attendants (5.4 %), consultants (3.1 %), interns (17.1 %), clinicians on salary (10.9 %), private practitioners (14.0 %)