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

Table 4

Multivariate linear regression of time-wasting score by background variables, N = 714.

	B		95% CI
Gender
Male	ref
Female	0.44	0.392	−0.573	1.460
Age
Less than 25	ref
25–35	1.00	0.115	−0.245	2.244
More than 35	0.52	0.478	−1.976	0.926
Residence
City	ref
Village	0.53	0.274	−0.423	1.490
Camp	1.05	0.209	−0.591	2.692
Educational level
Technical	ref
Bachelor	0.76	0.129	−0.222	1.734
Master or above	0.73	0.526	−1.528	2.988
Workplace
Hospital	ref
Patient community clinic	3.02	≤0.001	−4.360	−1.675
Type of organization
Government	ref
Private	4.09	≤0.001	2.925	5.246
Current job position
Nurse	ref
Nurse supervisor	0.74	0.340	−0.785	2.273
Job experience
Less than 5 years	ref
Between 5 10 years	0.20	0.761	−1.082	1.478
More than 10 years	0.34	0.638	−1.085	1.768
Teaching hospital/clinic
Yes	ref
No	2.63	≤0.001	1.644	3.626
Attended time management course
Yes	ref
No	3.11	0.002	0.576	2.556

The bold values are statistically significant. Note. ^∗p < 0.05; ^∗∗p < 0.01; ^∗∗∗p < 0.001.