Professional identity, wellness, and future hope among nurse interns in Egypt

Relations between nurse interns’ future hope scores and their personal characteristics_

Items	Future hope		Mann–Whitney test	P-value
	M ± SD	Median
Age, years old (20–25)
≤22	5.46 ± 1.85	6.00
≥23	5.55 ± 1.85	6.00	0.06	0.80
Gender
Male	5.63 ± 1.94	6.06
Female	5.44 ± 1.81	6.00	0.81	0.37
University
Suez Canal	5.60 ± 1.55	5.88
Zagazig	5.39 ± 2.11	6.13	0.09	0.76
Graduation grade
Good	5.20 ± 1.76	5.50
Very good	5.76 ± 1.79	6.38	H = 7.64	0.02*
Excellent	5.11 ± 1.98	5.63
Pre-university education
General	5.51 ± 1.88	6.00
Technical	5.10 ± 1.11	5.00	2.27	0.13
Chose nursing by own will
No	5.02 ± 1.76	6.00
Yes	5.63 ± 1.88	6.19	1.69	0.057
Have nurse role model
No	5.45 ± 1.76	5.75
Yes	5.58 ± 1.98	6.25	1.46	0.23
Have chronic disease
No	5.49 ± 1.88	6.00
Yes	5.70 ± 1.31	5.88	0.02	0.89

Sociodemographic characteristics of nurse interns in the study sample (N = 210)_

Sociodemographics	n	%	M ± SD	Median
Age, years old (20–25)			22.3 ± 0.9	22.0
≤22	128	61.0
≥23	82	39.0
Gender
Male	62	29.5
Female	148	70.5
Graduation grade
Good	40	19.0
Very good	119	56.7
Excellent	51	24.3
University
Suez Canal	105	50.0
Zagazig	105	50.0
Pre-university education
General	200	95.2
Technical	10	4.8
Chose nursing by own will
No	118	56.2
Yes	92	43.8
Have nurse role model
No	125	59.5
Yes	85	40.5
Have chronic disease
No	199	94.8
Yes	11	5.2

Scores of professional identity, wellness, and future hope among nurse interns in the study sample (N = 210)_

Items	Scores
	M	SD	Median	Quartiles
				1st	3rd
Professional identity (max = 5)	3.45	0.77	3.56	3.02	3.43
Benefit of retention/risk of turnover	3.35	0.93	3.50	3.00	3.35
Independence of career choice	3.25	0.60	3.00	3.00	3.20
Professional self-image	3.38	0.93	3.50	2.88	3.37
Social comparison and self-reflection	3.57	0.97	3.67	3.00	3.57
Social modeling	3.85	1.05	4.00	3.50	3.85
Wellness (max = 5)	3.04	0.99	3.19	2.50	3.03
Physical	2.86	1.11	2.92	2.14	2.85
Psychological	3.04	1.09	3.20	2.53	3.03
Social	3.22	1.11	3.46	2.61	3.21
Future hope (max = 8)	5.50	1.85	6.00	4.66	5.48
Agency	5.50	1.80	6.00	5.00	5.48
Pathway	5.50	2.00	6.00	4.33	5.48

Relations between nurse interns’ professional identity scores and their personal characteristics_

Items	Professional identity		Mann–Whitney test	P-value
	M ± SD	Median
Age, years old (20–25)
≤22	3.35 ± 0.75	3.53
≥23	3.60 ± 0.78	3.71	7.36	0.007**
Gender
Male	3.06 ± 0.88	3.18
Female	3.61 ± 0.66	3.71	18.25	<0.001**
University
Suez Canal	3.54 ± 0.59	3.53
Zagazig	3.35 ± 0.91	3.71	0.12	0.73
Graduation grade
Good	3.35 ± 0.79	3.47
Very good	3.48 ± 0.80	3.65	H = 1.70	0.43
Excellent	3.44 ± 0.68	3.53
Pre-university education
General	3.46 ± 0.78	3.59
Technical	3.24 ± 0.60	3.29	1.82	0.18
Chose nursing by own will
No	3.28 ± 0.74	3.35
Yes	3.66 ± 0.76	3.82	18.50	<0.001**
Have nurse role model
No	3.32 ± 0.75	3.47
Yes	3.63 ± 0.77	3.82	9.91	0.002**
Have chronic disease
No	3.43 ± 0.78	3.53
Yes	3.74 ± 0.58	3.65	1.03	0.31

Relations between nurse interns’ wellness scores and their personal characteristics_

Items	Wellness		Mann–Whitney test	P-value
	M ± SD	Median
Age, years old (20–25)
≤22	3.06 ± 1.01	3.23
≥23	3.01 ± 0.96	3.05	0.18	0.67
Gender
Male	3.17 ± 1.08	3.36
Female	2.99 ± 0.94	3.13	1.41	0.24
University
Suez Canal	3.09 ± 0.80	3.16
Zagazig	3.00 ± 1.14	3.21	0.03	0.85
Graduation grade
Good	2.72 ± 1.05	2.77
Very good	3.20 ± 0.90	3.24	H = 6.22	0.04*
Excellent	2.92 ± 1.06	3.21
Pre-university education
General	3.05 ± 1.00	3.21
Technical	2.82 ± 0.72	2.73	1.93	0.16
Chose nursing by own will
No	2.89 ± 0.97	3.04
Yes	3.24 ± 0.98	3.42	8.08	0.004**
Have nurse role model
No	2.99 ± 1.02	3.16
Yes	3.12 ± 0.94	3.24	0.59	0.44
Have chronic disease
No	3.04 ± 1.00	3.20
Yes	3.07 ± 0.69	3.00	0.22	0.64

Correlation matrix of professional identity, wellness, and future hope scales scores and nurse interns’ age and graduation grade_

Scales	Spearman rank correlation coefficient
	Professional identity	Wellness	Future hope
Wellness	0.142*
Future hope	0.273**	0.676**
Age	0.181**	−0.071	0.000
Graduation grade	0.029	0.062	−0.016

Best fitting multiple linear regression model for the professional identity, wellness, and future hope score_

Items	Unstandardized coefficients		Standardized coefficients	t-test	P-value	95% Confidence interval for B		r-square	Model ANOVA	Variables entered and excluded
	B	Std. Error				Lower	Upper
Professional identity								0.16	F = 14.33, P < 0.001	Age, pre-university education, graduation grade, university, chronic disease
Constant	40.22	3.26		12.341	<0.001**	33.79	46.65
Female gender	8.59	1.82	0.30	4.710	<0.001**	4.99	12.18
Chose nursing by own will	5.02	1.70	0.19	2.946	0.004**	1.66	8.38
Nurse role model	3.79	1.72	0.14	2.205	0.029*	0.40	7.18
Wellness								0.03	F = 6.60, P = 0.011	Age, gender, pre-university education, graduation grade, university, nurse role model, chronic disease
Constant	216.85	6.72		32.277	<0.001**	203.60	230.09
Chose nursing by own will	26.07	10.15	0.18	2.568	0.011*	6.06	46.08
Future hope								0.49	F = 67.46, P < 0.001	Age, gender, pre-university education, graduation grade, university, nurse role model, chronic disease
Constant	0.11	4.04		0.028	<0.001**	7.85	8.07
Chose nursing by own will	3.21	1.54	0.11	2.082	0.039*	6.25	0.17
Wellness score	0.14	0.01	0.68	13.616	<0.001**	0.12	0.16
Professional identity score	0.24	0.06	0.21	4.147	<0.001**	0.13	0.35