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Table 1 Description of WACH questionnaire survey sample by sex, age, department, and occupational group#

From: Do task and item difficulty affect overestimation of one’s hand hygiene compliance? A cross-sectional survey of physicians and nurses in surgical clinics of six hospitals in Germany

  

Physicians

N = 93

Nurses

N = 225

Sex

 Women

N (%)

42 (45.7%)

178 (82.0%)

 Men

N (%)

50 (54.3%)

39 (18.0%)

Age (in years)

   

 < 18

N (%)

0 (0.0%)

3 (1.4%)

 18–30

N (%)

14 (15.4%)

53 (24.7%)

 31–40

N (%)

30 (33.0%)

55 (25.6%)

 41–50

N (%)

23 (25.3%)

47 (21.9%)

 51–60

N (%)

18 (19.8%)

49 (22.8%)

 > 60

N (%)

6 (6.6%)

8 (3.7%)

Department

 Orthopedics/Trauma surgery

N (%)

38 (40.9%)

75 (33.3%)

 General/Visceral surgery

N (%)

21 (22.6%)

58 (25.8%)

 Both surgical departments

N (%)

5 (5.4%)

47 (20.9%)

 Anesthesiology

N (%)

29 (31.2%)

45 (20.0%)

Specialty

 Surgical specialists

N (%)

42 (45.2%)

 Surgical residents

N (%)

20 (21.5%)

 Anesthesiology specialists

N (%)

15 (16.1%)

 Anesthesiology residents

N (%)

14 (15.1%)

 Physician assistants

N (%)

2 (2.2%)

 Ward nurses

N (%)

102 (45.3%)

 Perioperative nurses

N (%)

78 (34.7%)

 Anesthesiology nurses

N (%)

45 (20.0%)

Occupational group

 Surgeons

N (%)

64 (68.8%)

 Anesthesiologists

N (%)

29 (31.2%)

 Surgical nurses

N (%)

180 (80.0%)

 Anesthesiology nurses

N (%)

45 (20.0%)

  1. #Any data not adding up to the relevant total due to missing values