Are care staff equipped for end-of-life communication? A cross-sectional study in long-term care facilities to identify determinants of self-efficacy

Table 1 Background characteristics of care staff at mental health facilities, nursing homes and care homes^a

	Mental health facility	Nursing home	Care home	p-value
	N = 137	N = 178	N = 262
	%	%	%
Gender
Male	25.5	7.9	4.2	< 0.001
Female	74.5	92.1	95.8
Age
17–35 years	24.1	26.4	30.9	0.170
36–50 years	32.1	40.5	35.5
> 50 years	43.8	33.1	33.6
Level of education^b
Low	1.5	44.9	47.7	< 0.001
Intermediate	34.5	50.0	46.5
High	64.0	5.1	5.8
Palliative care training^c
No	54.7	36.7	45.2	0.006
Yes	45.3	63.3	54.8
Years working in direct patient care
≤ 10 years	31.4	33.1	34.0	0.873
> 10 years	68.6	66.9	66.0
Hours per week working in this facility
< 32 h	32.8	67.4	67.6	< 0.001
≥ 32 h	67.2	32.6	32.4

^aMissing values varied between settings: mental health facilities: 1 missing observation (< 1%), nursing home: 1 missing observation (< 1%), care homes: 1–4 missing observations (< 2%). Χ [2]-test to test inter-group differences
^bOf the care workers in mental health facilities, 18 were (also) trained in social care (1 in the Intermediate and 17 in the High group)
^cPalliative care training: part of pre-registration nurse training and/or additional education after pre-registration nurse training

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