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Table 1 The healthcare professionals sociodemographic characteristics

From: Motivating healthcare professionals (nurses, nurse assistants, physicians) to integrate new practices for preventing healthcare-associated infections into the care continuum: turning Positive Deviance into positive norms

Sociodemographic characteristics

Category

Total HPs (n = 135)

n (%)

Demonstrators (n = 27)

n (%)

Gender

Male

39 (29)

9 (33)

Female

96 (71)

18 (67)

Age (years)

Mean (range)

38 (22–65)

38 (22–65)

Ethnicity

Jewish

82 (61)

15 (56)

Arab

53 (39)

12 (44)

Sector

Nurse

115 (85)

21 (78)

Nurse assistant

12 (9)

3 (11)

Physicians

8 (6)

3 (11)

Seniority (years)

Mean (range)

11 (0.5–38)

13 (1.5–38)

Hospital/Department

Hospital 1/ MICU

37 (27)

7 (26)

Hospital 2 / Internal Medicine

26 (19)

5 (19)

Hospital 2 / Orthopedics

20 (15)

6 (22)

Hospital 3 / Internal Medicine

31 (23)

3 (11)

Hospital 3 / Orthopedics

21 (165)

6 (22)