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Table 3 Home care staff characteristics

From: Development of a novel benchmark method to identify and characterize best practices in home care across six European countries: design, baseline, and rationale of the IBenC project

 

Total

Belgium

Finland

Germany

Iceland

Italy

The Netherlands

p-value

n = 1067

n = 401

n = 272

n = 80

n = 105

n = 43

n = 166

(%)

(%)

(%)

(%)

(%)

(%)

(%)

Female

984 (93.4)

384 (96.0)

264 (97.8)

63 (778.8)

99 (97.1)

29 (67.4)

145 (91.8)

0.000

Age < 30 years

182 (17.3)

91 (22.8)

48 (17.7)

10 (13.0)

16 (15.7)

5 (11.6)

12 (7.6)

0.000

30–45 years

314 (29.9)

135 (33.8)

75 (27.7)

26 (33.8)

21 (20.6)

17 (39.5)

40 (25.3)

> 45 years

555 (52.8)

174 (43.5)

148 (54.6)

41 (53.2)

65 (63.7)

21 (48.8)

106 (67.1)

Position

 Registred/Advanced practice registred nurse

713 (67.5)

298 (74.5)

191 (70.2)

62 (77.5)

22 (21.6)

13 (30.2)

127 (79.9)

0.000

 Licenced practical nurse

184 (17.4)

38 (9.5)

67 (24.6)

0 (0.0)

48 (47.1)

17 (39.5)

14 (8.8)

 

 Nursing assistant

26 (2.5)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

9 (11.3)

16 (15.7)

0 (0.0)

1 (0.6)

 

 Manager

57 (5.4)

35 (8.8)

10 (3.7)

5 (6.3)

2 (2.0)

5 (11.6)

0 (0.0)

 

Degree

 Secondary school to BSc

369 (35.4)

175 (44.1)

72 (26.7)

9 (11.3)

43 (45.7)

22 (51.2)

48 (30.2)

0.000

 BSc and higher

332 (31.9)

177 (44.6)

29 (10.8)

3 (3.8)

25 (26.6)

16 (37.2)

82 (51.6)

 

 Experience home care, years (mean ± SD)

11.6 ± 10.0

14.2 ± 11.2

10.8 ± 9.8

8.2 ± 7.2

8.8 ± 6.6

10.2 ± 7.4

10.4 ± 8.8

0.000

Permanent contract

906 (87.5)

375 (95.4)

189 (71.6)

65 (83.3)

88 (87.1)

40 (95.2)

149 (94.3)

0.000

Full time work arrangement

558 (52.8)

125 (31.3)

260 (95.6)

67 (83.8)

51 (50.0)

42 (97.7)

13 (8.2)

0.000

Sick leave

 None past year

341 (32.6)

152 (38.6)

66 (24.5)

35 (43.8)

26 (26.0)

7 (16.3)

55 (34.6)

0.000

  > 1 month past year

143 (13.7)

53 (13.4)

36 (13.4)

24 (30.0)

11 (11.0)

2 (4.7)

19 (11.9)

 

Perception of work related burn-outa (mean ± SD)

33.6 ± 16.7

30.9 ± 14.8

38.8 ± 16.8

43.0 ± 16.9

32.3 ± 14.7

42.3 ± 17.7

25.2 ± 16.4

0.000

Perception of physical workloadb (mean ± SD)

5.8 ± 2.6

3.1 ± 2.6

5.9 ± 2.2

6.8 ± 3.3

6.0 ± 2.5

4.1 ± 2.7

4.4 ± 1.9

0.000

Perception of work pacea (mean ± SD)

65.3 ± 19.2

64.8 ± 17.6

70.2 ± 16.7

77.4 ± 20.5

64.3 ± 17.5

74.7 ± 12.3

50.0 ± 19.8

0.000

Perception of paymenta (mean ± SD)

40.8 ± 27.2

49.0 ± 22.6

26.8 ± 24.2

38.4 ± 29.8

26.6 ± 26.2

34.9 ± 28.4

56.4 ± 26.1

0.000

Perception of job satisfactiona (mean ± SD)

71.5 ± 18.7

73.9 ± 15.5

64.8 ± 21.9

63.7 ± 11.0

70.5 ± 17.4

72.1 ± 16.2

81.1 ± 19.0

0.000

  1. aScale range 0–100 (low to high)
  2. bScale range 0–12 (low to high)