Effect of Head Nurses’ Workplace Polarity Management Educational Intervention on Their Coaching Behavior

Table 3

Head nurses’ ability to practice polarity management pre, post, and after 3 months of educational intervention (n = 12).

Head nurses’ practice of polarity management	Pre		Post		After 3 months		Test of sig.	value
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Low	12	100.0	3	25.0	6	50.0	Fr. = 22.167	<0.001
Moderate	0	0.0	6	50.0	5	41.7
High	0	0.0	3	25.0	1	8.3
Total mean score	6.5 ± 2.3		15.6 ± 2.1		8.0 ± 2.1		F = 50.906	<0.001
Total mean percent	32.5 ± 11.9		78.3 ± 10.7		40.4 ± 10.7

Note. Fr, Friedman test; F, test (ANOVA) with repeated measures; , probability value; , statistically significant at  < 0.05; n, subsample.