Luppo Kuillman

Moral reasoning explained by personality traits 65 3 RESULTS This study had a total response rate of 52.7% (i.e., 155/294 completed all the questionnaires). Table 1 shows an overview of the sociodemographic characteristics stratified by NPs and PAs. Physician assistants (mean age 42.5 years) are statistically significant ( p < .001) younger compared with nurse practitioners (mean age 48.8 years). However, NPs and PAs did not differ in terms of gender ( p = .05), religion ( p = .54) and work setting ( p = .58) Moreover, the prevalence of politically conservative and liberal orientation also did not differ significantly ( p = .14) across both professions. Table 1: Socio-demographic characteristics stratified by NPs and PAs Sociodemographic characteristics Physician Assistant N = 88 Nurse Practitioner N = 67 Total N = 155 (p-value) Age mean (SD) 42.5 (8.4) 48.8 (8.7) 45.2 (9.1) < .001 # Gender Female N (%) 56 (63.6) 53 (79.1) 109 (70.3 %) .05 $ Male N (%) 32 (36.4) 14 (20.9) 46 (29.7 %) Religion Not religious 48 (54.5) 35 (52.3) 83 (53.5 %) .54 $ No denomination, but spiritual 3 (3.4) 4 (4.5) 7 (4.5 %) Christian 35 (39.8) 25 (37.3) 60 (38.7 %) Islam 1 (1.1) 0 1 (0.7 %) Other religions 1 3 (4.5) 4 (2.6 %) Working environment Hospital, N (%) 64 (72.7 %) 49 (73.1%) 113 (72.9 %) .58 $ General practice, N (%) 13 (14.8 %) 7 (10.5 %) 20 (12.9 %) Mental health, N (%) 3 (3.4 %) 6 (9 %) 9 (5.8 %) Disability care, N (%) 1 (1.1 %) 1 (1.5 %) 2 (1.3 %) Other, N (%)) 7 (8 %) 4 (5.9 %) 11 (7.1 %) Political orientation Conservative N (%) 15 (17 %) 6 (9 %) 21 (13.5 %) .14 $ Liberal N (%) 73 (83 %) 61 (91 %) 134 (86.5 %) # = independent-sample t-test; $ = difference between proportions test * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01