Table 4

Hierarchical linear regression analyses of factors associated with the nurses’ genomic knowledge total score (N=2118)

Variable	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
Variable	β (95% CI)	P value	β (95% CI)	P value	β (95% CI)	P value
Gender
Male	Ref		Ref		Ref
Female	0.06 (0.02 to 0.10)	0.006	0.06 (0.02 to 0.11)	0.004	0.06 (0.02 to 0.10)	0.005
Years of clinical nursing	−0.09 (−0.14 to 0.05)	<0.001	−0.09 (−0.14 to 0.04)	<0.001	−0.07 (−0.11 to 0.03)	0.002
Initial level of nursing education	0.09 (0.04 to 0.13)	<0.001	0.09 (0.04 to 0.13)	<0.001	0.10 (0.06 to 0.14)	<0.001
Member of Chinese Nursing Association	0.07 (0.02 to 0.11)	0.003	0.06 (0.02 to 0.11)	0.005	0.06 (0.02 to 0.10)	0.004
Type of hospital
General hospital			Ref		Ref
Cancer hospital			0.03 (−0.02 to 0.07)	0.231	0.01 (−0.03 to 0.05)	0.744
Did nursing curriculum include genetics and genomics content?					0.08 (0.03 to 0.12)	0.001
Genetics/genomics course since licensure					−0.02 (−0.07 to 0.02)	0.286
Attitude towards becoming more educated in genetics and genomics of common diseases					0.25 (0.20 to 0.29)	<0.001
F	12.90	<0.001	10.61	<0.001	26.78	<0.001
△R²	0.02		<0.01		0.07
△F			1.44	0.231	52.44	<0.001

β stands for standard regression coefficient; △R² stands for change in explained variance.