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Table 1 Descriptive data (N = 261)

From: Development, reliability, and validity of the nurses’ conscientious objection attitude scale (COAS-N)

Sociodemographic variables

N

%

Gender

  

 Female

236

90.4%

 Male

25

9.6%

Marital Status

  

 Married

136

52.1%

 Single

125

47.9%

Education Status

  

 High school

12

4.6%

 Associate degree

17

6.5%

 License

169

64.7%

 Master’s degree

55

21.1%

 PhD

8

3.1%

Public or Private Sector

  

 Public

226

86.6%

 Private

35

13.4%

Employed Institution

  

 Training and research hospital

131

50.2%

 University hospital

57

21.8%

 State hospital

48

18.4%

 Private hospital / Foundation university hospital

16

6.1%

 Private medical center

6

2.3%

 Family medicine

3

1.2%

Work Position

  

 Clinic

158

60.5%

 Specialty branch

52

20%

 Manager

46

17.6%

 Outpatient clinic

5

1.9%

Working Clinica

  

 Internal Clinics*

78

30.4%

 Surgical Clinics**

70

27.2%

 Intensive Care Units

33

12.8%

 Operating Room

20

7.8%

 Administrative Duty

18

7.0%

 Emergency Service

16

6.2%

 Outpatient

13

5.1%

 Dialysis Unit

9

3.5%

  1. *Participants from Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Neurology, Cardiology, Oncology, Infectious Diseases and Family Medicine clinics
  2. **General Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, Cardiac-vascular surgery, and Urology clinics
  3. a= 257 nurses responded to this question.