Factors Contributing to Time-Wasting Activities among Palestinian Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 2

Factor loading, means, and SD for each question in the time-wasting scale.

	1	2	3	Mean	SD
You spend more time with personal grooming than doing nursing work	0.81			2.14	1.30
You do not understand time planning	0.89			2.24	1.38
You cannot distinguish what is important from what is not	0.90			2.22	1.39
You underestimate time and effort needed to accomplish tasks	0.89			2.23	1.37
You are on Internet access all the time during the day		0.75		2.62	1.37
You check and respond to so many different communication mediums (e-mail, voice mail, others)		0.79		2.83	1.37
You have assigned times to respond to phone calls or emails, reversed		0.73		3.03	1.33
You make yourself overly accessible		0.76		3.15	1.37
When someone is talking and not getting to the point, you interrupt him and search for truth			0.84	2.37	1.19
You are brief when talking, reversed			0.88	2.37	1.17
When you are busy, you give appointments when you are free, reversed			0.84	2.41	1.16