Table 4. A comparison of participants with “persistent” psychological distress at T3 (GHQ-12 ≥ 3 at T1 and T3) versus those without (GHQ-12 score ≥ 3 at T1 and < 3 at T3).
Q-value: p-value adjusted to maintain false discovery rate ≤ 0.05. Variables in bold are statistically significant at the p = 0.05 level. BRCS: Brief Resilience Coping Scale.
| Characteristic | Overall N = 122 |
Persistence N = 55 |
Recovery N = 67 |
p-value | q-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHQ-12 score at T1 | 5.2 (2.2) | 5.7 (2.5) | 4.8 (1.9) | 0.029 | 0.2 |
| GHQ-12 score at T3 | 2.9 (3.2) | 5.9 (2.4) | 0.5 (0.7) | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| Age, mean (SD) | 41.0 (9.9) | 41 (11) | 40.9 (8) | >0.9 | >0.9 |
| Sex (% female) | 0.08 | 0.3 | |||
| Female | 98 (80%) | 48 (87%) | 50 (75%) | ||
| Male | 24 (20%) | 7 (13%) | 17 (25%) | ||
| Profession | 0.2 | 0.4 | |||
| Allied Health | 12 (9.8%) | 3 (5.5%) | 9 (13%) | ||
| Physician | 29 (24%) | 14 (25%) | 15 (22%) | ||
| Registered Nurse | 65 (53%) | 33 (60%) | 32 (48%) | ||
| Respiratory therapist | 16 (13%) | 4 (9.1%) | 11 (16%) | ||
| Resilience (BRCS) | 15.1 (2.3) | 15.0 (2.1) | 15.2 (2.5) | 0.6 | 0.8 |
| Median weekly hospital shifts | 3.3 (1.4) | 3.5 (1.4) | 3.1 (1.5) | 0.13 | 0.4 |
| Median weekly hospital shifts with COVID-19 exposure | 1.2 (1.4) | 1.4 (1.5) | 1.0 (1.3) | 0.055 | 0.3 |
| Median maximum COVID-19 patients in ICU | 6.4 (5.5) | 5.72 (4.92) | 7.04 (5.91) | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Number of weekly responses | 12.7 (3.0) | 12.2 (3.2) | 13.1 (2.8) | 0.12 | 0.3 |