Luppo Kuillman

Facilitating and motivating factors for reporting reprehensible conduct 93 4 RESULTS Sociodemographic characteristics An overview of the sociodemographic characteristics of the respondents is presented in Table 1. The average age of the respondents was 45.2 (± 9.1). The majority (70.3%) of the recruited sample were women. Less than half (46.5%) of the 155 respondents reported being religious, and 13.5% indicated a tendency to vote for a conservative political party. The results nevertheless did not reveal any statistically significant association ( χ 2 =3,991, df =1, p =0.06) between religiosity and political preference. With respect to working environment, most (72.9%) of the respondents were employed in hospitals, with a smaller share (14%) working in family medicine (general practice) and the rest working either in mental healthcare (5.8%), care for people with mental disabilities (1.3%), or elsewhere (12.9%). Table 1: Socio-demographic characteristics of participants stratified to PAs and NPs 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 %) Muslim 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 care 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’s T-test; $ =difference between proportions test; & = Chi square test