Table 5 The correlations between the participants’ knowledge, attitudes, and performance and their demographic variables
Variable | Statistics | Age | Visiting nursing homes | Weekly working hours | Graduation time | Older adults visited in the last week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Attitudes | Pearson’s correlation | 0.69 | 0.082 | -0.076 | 0.003 | -0.004 |
P-value | 0.425 | 0.347 | 0.385 | 0.972 | 0.965 | |
Performance | Pearson’s correlation | 0.113 | 0.036 | -0.029 | -0.028 | 0.245 |
P-value | 0.182 | 0.671 | 0.731 | 0.737 | *0.002 | |
Knowledge | Pearson’s correlation | 0.131 | 0.151 | 0.245 | 0.193 | 0.098 |
P-value | 0.125 | 0.079 | *0.004 | *0.024 | 0.254 | |
Total score | Pearson’s correlation | 0.122 | 0.088 | -0.026 | -0.049 | 0.152 |
P-value | 0.172 | 0.326 | 0.770 | 0.588 | 0.089 |