Abstract
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Authors’ contributions
Conceptualization: YMK, JMP. Data curation: YMK, SHL, SOL, MYA, BYK, JMP. Methodology/formal analysis/validation: YMK, SHL, SOL, MYA, BYK, JMP. Project administration: YMK. Funding acquisition: YMK. writing–original draft: YMK. Writing–review & editing: YMK, SHL, SOL, MYA, BYK, JMP.
Funding
This work was supported by the Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examination Institute (Fundref ID: 202208430001) research fund (2022). The funders had no role in study design, data collection, and analysis, the decision to publish, or the preparation of the manuscript. This article is part of a research report conducted as an assignment by the Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examination Institute.
Data availability
Data files are available from Harvard Dataverse: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HYETXY
Dataset 1. Raw response data for comparing the examination-based licensing system and the training-based licensing system for midwives.
Supplementary materials
References
Table 1.
Characteristic | Value |
---|---|
Age (yr) | 48.11±10.56 (26–76) |
<30 | 6 (2.8) |
30 to <40 | 42 (19.4) |
40 to <50 | 68 (31.3) |
50 to <60 | 70 (32.2) |
≥60 | 31 (14.3) |
Gender | |
Female | 211 (97.2) |
Male | 6 (2.8) |
Marital status | |
Married | 168 (77.4) |
Single | 49 (22.6) |
Level of education | |
3-Year’s degree | 25 (11.5) |
Bachelor’s degree | 95 (43.8) |
Master’s degree | 49 (22.6) |
Doctoral degree | 48 (22.1) |
Midwife license | |
Yes | 126 (58.1) |
No | 91 (41.9) |
Occupation | |
Midwife | 53 (24.4) |
Nurse | 73 (33.6) |
Nursing school professor and instructor | 48 (22.1) |
Obstetrician | 15 (6.9) |
Pediatrician | 6 (2.8) |
Othera) | 22 (10.1) |
Place of employment | |
Hospital | 126 (58.1) |
Maternity clinic | 6 (2.7) |
University | 52 (24.0) |
Public health center | 11 (5.1) |
Other | 22 (10.1) |
Obstetrics/pediatrics | 12.49±9.97 |
None | 14 (11.3) |
Total working experience (yr)b) | 0–40.0 |
≤5 | 27 (21.4) |
>5 to 9 | 20 (15.9) |
10 to 14 | 17 (13.5) |
15 to 19 | 17 (13.5) |
20 to 24 | 15 (11.9) |
25 to 29 | 11 (8.7) |
≥30 | 5 (4.0) |