Barriers to Safe Oxygen Therapy and the Effect of the Training on the Knowledge and Performance of ICU Nurses

Table 4

Demographic characteristics of the studied units in the educational phase.

Variables		Intervention group	Control group	value
Age, year	Mean ± SD	33.33 ± 7.20	31.4 ± 4.90	0.319
Work experience, year		9.33 ± 4.93	8.24 ± 4.57	0.316
Work experience in COVID ICU, month		6.72 ± 8.68	6.84 ± 8.76	0.950
Sex	N (%)
Male		6 (15.38)	11 (28.95)	0.151
Female		33 (84.62)	27 (71.05)
Marital status
Single		23 (58.98)	20 (52.63)	0.575
Married		16 (41.02)	18 (47.37)
Level of education
Bachelor of science		33 (84.62)	34 (89.47	0.526
Master of Science		6 (15.38)	4 (10.52)
Passing the course of oxygen therapy
Yes		11 (28.20)	6 (15.78)	0.189
No		28 (71.80)	32 (84.22)
Work experience in the COVID ICU
Yes		29 (74.36)	28 (73.68)	0.947
No		10 (25.64)	10 (26.32)

N: number; SD: standard deviation; %: percent.