Table 1 Summary of 11 dimensions of the context of acute care nursing.
From: Measuring the context of care in an Australian acute care hospital: a nurse survey
Dimensions of context | Range | Control | Intervention | Â | Â | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Â | mean | SD | mean | SD | Treatment effect (P) | Ward effect (P) |
1. Leadership | 1-5 | 3.8 | 0.8 | 3.7 | 0.8 | 0.75 | 0.002 |
2. Culture | 1-5 | 3.9 | 0.6 | 3.8 | 0.6 | 0.48 | 0.001 |
3. Feedback processes | 1-5 | 3.4 | 0.8 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 0.14 | 0.000 |
4. Information sharing interaction | 0-7 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 2.6 | 1.8 | 0.74 | 0.22 |
5. Information sharing activities | 0-5 | 2.3 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 1.4 | 0.62 | 0.05 |
6. Information sharing social processes | 1-5 | 4.0 | 0.6 | 4.0 | 0.5 | 0.59 | 0.06 |
7. Structural and electronic resources | 0-11 | 3.9 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 0.07 | 0.78 |
8. Organisation slack - Human resources | 1-5 | 3.1 | 1.1 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0.36 | 0.000 |
9. Organisation slack - Space | 1-5 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.43 | 0.000 |
10. Organisation slack - Time | 1-5 | 3.0 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.44 | 0.000 |
11. Organisational slack | 3-15 | 8.8 | 2.1 | 8.3 | 2.0 | 0.25 | 0.000 |