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Table 1 Nurses’ emotions during treatment of patients with NSSI

From: The attitudes and feelings of mental health nurses towards adolescents and young adults with nonsuicidal self-injuring behaviors

 

Average

SD

Comparison to “Powerlessness”

Z

p

I feel powerless

3.55

1.038

  

I face uncertainty

3.21

1.225

30.084

0.002

I feel fear

3.07

1.204

3.700

 < 0.001

I feel anger

2.34

1.172

5.864

 < 0.001

I feel despair

2.07

1.087

6.595

 < 0.001

  1. The emotions were determined using a 5-point Likert scale (5 = I completely agree; 1 = I don't agree at all); SD standard deviation; Z—the Wilcox pair nonparametric test was applied for the comparison of “powerlessness” with each of the other 4 remaining emotions. Statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) are in italic
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

ISSN: 1753-2000