The attitudes of psychiatric hospital staff toward hospitalization and treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder

Table 4 Means, standard deviations, frequencies and percent, and statistical comparisons of supplementary analyses

Profession	Nurs.	SA	Psyh.	Psych.	Statistical tests
BPD last month	3.67 (3.94)	1.84 (2.68)	1.81 (2.09)	2.95 (4.21)	F(3,372) =10.18***, η² = .08
BPD last 12 months	11.30 (17.56)	3.02 (3.48)	3.44 (4.14)	17.44 (35.95)	F(3,372) =10.33***, η² = .08
Knowledge in DBT	2.01 (1.07)	2.13 (1.22)	2.07 (1.06)	2.43 (1.09)	F(3,635) =5.02**, η² = .02
Interest in short-term	4.05 (0.90)	3.99 (1.07)	3.94 (0.97)	3.74 (1.12)	F(3,652) =3.36*, η² = .02
Interest in long-term	3.85 (1.04)	4.08 (1.01)	4.15 (0.79)	3.61 (1.12)	F(3,652) =8.83**, η² = .04
Interest in therapy	234 (93.2%)	95 (96.0%)	150 (94.9%)	145 (87.9%)	χ2 (3) = 12.58**
Interest in diagnostic	226 (89.7%)	89 (89.9%)	133 (84.7%)	118 (71.5%)	χ2 (3) = 8.63*

Note. Nursing=Nurs. Social work=SA; Psychology=Psyh; Psychiatry=Psych. The first two rows are numbers of BPD patients treated last month or last 12 months; The next five rows are reports on knowledge in DBT, interest in learning short-term therapy and long-term methods for patients with BPD, interest in improving therapeutic and diagnostic skills; Standard deviations are presented in parentheses/percent; DBT = Dialectic Behavior Therapy; *p < .05, **p<. 01, ***p < .001.