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

Table 4

Multiple regression analysis predicting student survey on writing nursing care plan according to sociodemographic characteristics (N = 248).

Variables	B	S. E	Beta	t	Sig	95.0% confidence interval for B
						Lower bound	Upper bound
(Constant)	−1.247	0.402		−3.102	0.002	−2.039	−0.455
Age	0.164	0.071	0.142	2.323	0.021	0.025	0.303
Gender	0.050	0.049	0.043	1.028	0.305	−0.046	0.145
Marital status	0.050	0.071	0.030	0.708	0.479	−0.090	0.190
Semester	0.071	0.023	0.226	3.047	0.003	0.025	0.118
Grade point average	0.216	0.022	0.486	10.044	0.000	0.174	0.258
Interest for nursing commitment	−0.028	0.066	−0.020	−0.423	0.673	−0.157	0.102
Nursing school	0.002	0.033	0.003	0.059	0.953	−0.063	0.067
Nursing process course	0.083	0.066	0.053	1.248	0.213	−0.048	0.214
Interest in the nursing field	0.052	0.067	0.036	0.784	0.434	−0.079	0.184
Time spent studying (hours per day)	0.079	0.038	0.116	2.058	0.041	0.003	0.155

 = 0.61, adjusted  = 0.59, F (37.43), and .