Table 2.
Anxiety and depression from the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and proportion of periodic reports by report of anxiety or depression made worse by work by harassment reported on “wrap-up” questionnaire.
| Any report of harassment | HADS score | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anxiety | Depression | ||||||
| N | Median | Mean | SD | Median | Mean | SD | |
| Women | |||||||
| No | 163 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 3.4 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 2.6 |
| Yes | 300 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 4.3 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 3.5 |
| All | 463 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 3.9 | 3.2 |
| Men | |||||||
| No | 313 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 3.1 |
| Yes | 172 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 3.9 | 5.0 | 5.4 | 4.1 |
| All | 485 | 5.0 | 5.8 | 3.7 | 3.0 | 4.2 | 3.6 |
| Overall | |||||||
| No | 476 | 5.0 | 5.2 | 3.4 | 2.0 | 3.3 | 3.0 |
| Yes | 472 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 3.7 |
| All | 948 | 6.0 | 6.4 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 3.4 |
| Report of harassment | All with periodic reports while in trade | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proportion of reports with anxiety made worse by work (%) | Proportion of reports with depression made worse by work (%) | ||||||
| N a | Median | Mean | SD | Median | Mean | SD | |
| Women | |||||||
| No | 131 | 0.0 | 7.3 | 15.7 | 0.0 | 3.8 | 13.3 |
| Yes | 246 | 0.0 | 21.6 | 31.8 | 0.0 | 15.3 | 27.4 |
| All | 377 | 0.0 | 16.7 | 28.1 | 0.0 | 11.3 | 24.1 |
| Men | |||||||
| No | 288 | 0.0 | 10.5 | 20.8 | 0.0 | 7.7 | 18.4 |
| Yes | 157 | 14.3 | 24.7 | 30.2 | 0.0 | 18.7 | 29.4 |
| All | 445 | 0.0 | 15.5 | 25.4 | 0.0 | 11.6 | 23.5 |
| Overall | |||||||
| No | 419 | 0.0 | 9.5 | 19.4 | 0.0 | 6.5 | 17.1 |
| Yes | 403 | 0.0 | 22.8 | 31.2 | 0.0 | 16.6 | 28.2 |
| All | 822 | 0.0 | 16.0 | 26.7 | 0.0 | 11.5 | 23.8 |
Note: All HADS scores for those reporting and not reporting harassment differed with P < 0.001.
aParticipants completing the HADS questionnaire and periodic reports while in trade.