Endorsement means that the course has met the criteria as set down by the ACN; however it does not mean that there is any formal qualification associated with it, and as stated previously, there is no requirement for nurses to choose an "endorsed" CPD activity (see Table 1).
An association was found for educational attainment, where increased qualifications were associated with decreased odds of reporting dysfunction in all three questions.
"New arrivals to the country are strongly represented in present church congregations and it could be that the growth in religious studies qualifications is associated with immigration," it adds.
According to this model, the different ISCED categories follow the same order in most countries, meaning that higher level educational qualifications are associated with higher literacy skills, and within ISCED levels, non-vocational education is usually associated with higher competencies than vocational education.
In the 1946 52 cohort, having no formal qualifications was associated with increased odds of disagreement (OR 4.21, 95% CI 1.33 to 13.32).
For instance, having no maternal educational qualifications was associated with a 26% increased odds of being in the high-frequency class and 68% increased odds of being in the high-consumption class.
Possession of educational qualifications was associated with greater use of high factor sunscreen and seeking shade, and less use of covering up (although this latter result was not an independent effect).
Similarly, having educational qualifications was associated with a greater likelihood of using high factor sunscreen and seeking shade, but did not emerge as an independent predictor of covering up.
The final adjusted model suggests that increasing income does not have a great impact on lowering obesity levels, but that higher academic qualifications are associated with lower obesity levels [Odds of obesity: 0.63 (95%CI: 0.52-0.77) if primary carer leaves school after age 16 compared at age 16].
