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Table 1 Description of respondents (all and categorized by status of discrimination experiences) and institutional characteristics

From: Observed and personally experienced discrimination: findings of a cross-sectional survey of physicians and nursing staff

Variable

All respondents

(n = 800)

n (%)/mean (SD)

Witness of discrimination

(n = 305)

n (row %a)/mean (SD)

Victim of discrimination

(n = 108)

n (row %a)/mean (SD)

No discrimination experience

(n = 480)

n (row %a)/mean (SD)

Institution

    

 Organization A

271 (33.9%)

113 (41.7%)

51 (18.8%)

151 (55.7%)

 Organization B

529 (66.1%)

192 (36.3%)

57 (10.8%)*

329 (62.2%)

Gender

    

 Male

241 (31.0%)

94 (39.0%)

35 (14.5%)

141 (58.5%)

 Female

536 (69.0%)

201 (37.5%)

69 (12.9%)

326 (60.8%)

Professional group

 Physicians

243 (30.4%)

101 (41.6%)

45 (18.5%)

137 (56.4%)

 Nursing staff

557 (69.6%)

204 (36.6%)

63 (11.3%)*

343 (61.6%)

Migration background

 No migration background

621 (78.2%)

235 (37.8%)

78 (12.6%)

375 (60.4%)

 Migration background on one side

56 (7.1%)

24 (42.9%)

11 (19.6%)

30 (53.6%)

 Migration background on both sides

117 (14.7%)

45 (38.5%)

19 (16.2%)

70 (59.8%)

Employment contract

 Fixed-term

207 (26.4%)

93 (44.9%)

34 (16.4%)

111 (53.6%)

 Permanent

578 (73.6%)

207 (35.8%)*

74 (12.8%)

359 (62.1%)*

Work time model

 Full time

492 (62.2%)

192 (39.0%)

69 (14.0%)

290 (58.9%)

 Part time

299 (37.8%)

110 (36.8%)

38 (12.7%)

184 (61.5%)

Age (in years)

41.3 (11.1)

40.3 (10.4)*

39.4 (10.2)

41.9 (11.4)*

Cultural competence

3.5 (0.6)

3.6 (0.6)*

3.8 (0.5)*

3.4 (0.6)*

Estimated proportion of staff with migration background in respondent’s own department (in %)

22.1 (17.5)

22.5 (16.8)

22.4 (16.9)

21.8 (17.8)

Estimated proportion of patients with migration background in respondent’s own department (in %)

30.5 (20.5)

32.2 (20.3)

33.0 (22.2)

29.1 (20.4)*

  1. aRow percentages for witnesses and victims of discrimination and those without discrimination experiences describe the relative amount of counts in the respective total of the row variable; Pearson Chi-square tests and Student’s t tests were conducted to examine differences in the distribution of categorical and metrical variables, respectively. Statistically significant differences (p ≤ 0.05, two-sided) in distributions between respondents with and without discrimination experiences at their wards are denoted by an asterisk (*)