Cross-border comparison of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and AMR prevention measures: the healthcare workers’ perspective

Table 3 APM responses of (i) all respondents, (ii) German/Dutch physicians, and (iii) German/Dutch nurses, including p-values of differences between nationalities

APM		All respondents (n = 574)			Physicians (n = 177)			Nurses (n = 397)
		DE (n = 305)	NL (n = 269)	P-value	DE (n = 128)	NL (n = 49)	P-value	DE (n = 177)	NL (n = 220)	P-value
		Mean	Mean	P-value	Mean	Mean	P-value	Mean	Mean	P-value
Screening diagnostics	Importance	4.7	4.5	≤0.001	4.7	4.4	0.002	4.8	4.6	≤0.001
Screening diagnostics	Feeling sufficiently equipped^a	3.6	3.3	0.005	3.7	3.6	0.075	3.5	3.3	0.166
Infection diagnosis	Importance	4.7	4.5	0.003	4.7	4.4	0.004	4.6	4.5	0.134
Infection diagnosis	Feeling sufficiently equipped^a	3.6	3.3	≤0.001	4.3	4.2	0.197	3.2	3.1	0.335
Treatment	Importance	4.8	4.5	≤0.001	4.9	4.5	≤0.001	4.8	4.4	≤0.001
Treatment	Feeling sufficiently equipped^a	3.2	2.8	≤0.001	4.0	4.1	0.746	2.6	2.5	0.004
Infection control	Importance	4.8	4.5	≤0.001	4.7	4.3	≤0.001	4.9	4.5	≤0.001
Infection control	Feeling sufficiently equipped^a	4.0	3.9	0.230	3.9	3.8	0.534	4.0	3.9	0.114

Note. When there is a statistically significant difference between nationalities, the nationality with the highest mean is shown in bold. DE = Germany, NL = The Netherlands
^aCronbach’s alphas for the “Feeling sufficiently equipped”-scales were between 0.69 and 0.83 for all respondents of this study

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