Nursing Students’ Competency about Writing Nursing Care Plan: An Exploratory Study in Iran

Table 3

Relationship between nurses’ sociodemographic characteristics and student survey on writing nursing care plan (N = 248).

Characteristics	Categories	Mean	SD	Statistical	value
Grade point average		16.37	1.296	r = 0.688
Age	18–22	3.04	0.468	t = −9.816
	23–27	3.65	0.509
Gender	Female	3.32	0.556	t = −0.907
	Male	3.39	0.599
Marital status	Single	3.34	0.580	t = −0.951
	Married	3.44	0.551
Semester	2	2.88	0.529	F = 34.77
	3	3.00	0.458
	4	3.08	0.347
	5	3.22	0.477
	6	3.35	0.328
	7	3.99	0.330
	8	3.72	0.508
Interest for nursing commitment	Yes	3.54	0.518	t = 2.733
	No	3.30	0.582
Nursing school	Ardabil	3.33	0.550	F = 1.467
	Meshgin	3.31	0.583
	Germi	3.48	0.638
Nursing process course	Yes	3.34	0.480	t = −0.162
	No	3.36	0.594
Interest in the nursing field	Yes	3.42	0.557	t = 3.99
	No	3.07	0.569
Time spent studying (hours per day)	Less than 1 hour	3.01	0.462	F = 34.58
	Between 1 and 2 hours	3.26	0.501
	Between 2 and 3 hours	3.71	0.510
	More than 3 hours	4.16	0.143