Participant characteristics
A total of 254 health care providers participated in the
study and completed all questionnaires (response rate of
79.9 %). According to the demographic characteristics
(Table 1), the majority of participants were female
(73.2 %) with a mean age of 33.9 (9.5) years ranging
from 18 to 58 years. Of these, 28.7 %, 23.2 %, 20.5 %,
11.8 %, 10.6 %, and 5.1 % were nurses, physicians, pharmacists,
medical technician, dentist, and physical/occupational
therapist, respectively.