This study issued 475 questionnaires and collected
458 valid responses from April to June, 2008, yielding
an effective response ratio of 96.4%. All respondents
were female. Most respondents (70.7%) were under the
age of 30 years. Nearly all respondents (98.5%) had a
university or college education. The majority (55.4%)had less than 5 years of working experience in nursing.
Most (77.3%) cared for seven to nine patients per day
shift. Table 1 summarizes the profile of the nurse
respondents.