Table 1 Participants’ demographic characteristics (n = 755)
Demographic characteristics | Mean | SD |
Age | 34 | ±7.19 |
Years of experiences | 10.17 | ±7.07 |
n | % | |
Gender | ||
Male | 12 | 1.6% |
Female | 743 | 98.4% |
Education | ||
Associate bachelor | 162 | 21.4% |
4-year bachelor | 254 | 33.6% |
2-year bachelor | 298 | 39.5% |
>Master degree | 41 | 5.4% |
Marriage | ||
Single | 406 | 53.8% |
Married | 332 | 44.0% |
Divorced | 14 | 1.9% |
Widow | 3 | 0.4% |
Religion | ||
Daoism | 454 | 60.1% |
Buddhism | 103 | 13.6 |
Christian | 66 | 8.8% |
Others | 132 | 17.5% |
Employed position | ||
Nurse | 678 | 89.8% |
Clinical nurse specialist | 77 | 10.2% |
Frequency of Journal readings | ||
No | 266 | 35.2% |
1–2 | 388 | 51.4% |
> 3 | 101 | 13.4% |
Received TCM education | ||
No | 445 | 58.9% |
Yes | 310 | 41.1% |
Self-use of TCM | ||
No | 495 | 65.6% |
Yes | 260 | 34.4% |
Practice of TCM | ||
No | 615 | 81.4% |
little | 140 | 18.6% |
Perceived knowledge of TCM | ||
No | 120 | 15.9% |
little | 384 | 50.9% |
Some | 184 | 24.4% |
Medium | 59 | 7.8% |
High | 7 | 1.0% |
Frequency of TCM communication | ||
No | 206 | 27.3% |
little | 373 | 49.4% |
Sometime | 121 | 16.0% |
Often | 50 | 6.6% |
Always | 5 | 0.7% |