Skip to main content

Table 2 Nurses’ emotions during treatment of patients with NSSI with regard to gender, education, workplace and religiousness

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

Emotion

Gender

Education

Workplace

Religiousness

Gender

Education

Workplace

Religiousness

 

Female (n = 56)

Male (n = 20)

High (n = 39)

Middle (n = 37)

Psych (n = 33)

Non-P (n = 43)

\(\mathrm{Active }\)(n = 22)

Non-R (n = 54)

Statistical significance (p)

I feel fear

3.18 ± 1.208

2.75 ± 1.164

3.13 ± 1.031

3.00 ± 1.374

2.67 ± 1.164

3.37 ± 1.155

3.04 ± 1.136

3.11 ± 1.340

0.162

0.809

0.011

0.757

I feel powerless

3.62 ± 1.105

3.35 ± 0.813

3.90 ± 0.821

3.19 ± 1.126

3.36 ± 1.141

3.70 ± 0.939

3.59 ± 1.039

3.48 ± 1.051

0.16

0.005

0.177

0.610

I feel anger

2.39 ± 1.171

2.20 ± 1.196

2.49 ± 1.189

2.19 ± 1.151

2.15 ± 1.093

2.49 ± 1.222

2.27 ± 1.132

2.48 ± 1.252

0.089

0.259

0.233

0.458

I feel despair

2.12 ± 1.113

1.90 ± 1.021

2.51 ± 1.167

1.59 ± 0.762

1.73 ± 0.977

2.33 ± 1.107

2.02 ± 1.031

2.15 ± 1.199

0.486

 < 0.001

0.011

0.767

I face uncertainty

3.34 ± 1.180

2.85 ± 1.309

3.51 ± 1.073

2.89 ± 1.308

2.82 ± 1.310

3.51 ± 1.077

3.20 ± 1.207

3.22 ± 1.281

0.428

0.045

0.015

0.915

  1. N = 76; The data are presented as average ± standard deviation and p values (Mann–Whitney U-test); n number, Education: High – technical, university level or post-graduate / Middle—high school; Workplace: Psych—psychotherapeutic unit / Non-P—non-psychotherapeutic unit; Religiousness: Active – actively religious / Non-R—not actively religious; respondents replied on a 5-point Likert scale (5 = I completely agree; 1 = I don't agree at all). Statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) are in italic
Back to article page

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

ISSN: 1753-2000