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. 2024 May 28;23:134. doi: 10.1186/s12904-024-01446-y

Table 2.

Signs of distress among HCPs in four time periods (percentages and Odds Ratio’s (OR’s) with 95% confidence intervals (CI’s))

First period Second period Third period Fourth period
% (CI) OR (CI) % (CI) OR (CI) % (CI) OR (CI) % (CI) OR (CI)
More stressed 63.6% (57.8-69.2) ref 38.4% (32.8-44.2) 0.35 (0.27- 0.47) 39.2% (32.1-46.6) 0.37 (0.25- 0.54) 34.9% (27.0-43.5) 0.31 (0.21-0.47)
Work emotionally demanding 52.5% (46.6-58.4) ref 31.5% (26.3-37.2) 0.41 (0.31- 0.55) 34.9% (28.0-42.3) 0.49 (0.34- 0.70) 27.8% (20.5-36.0) 0.37 (0.25-0.54)
Work physically demanding 37.5% (31.9-43.3) ref 24.6% (19.8-30.0) 0.56 (0.43-0.72) 29.6% (23.1-36.8) 0.77 (0.53- 1.11) 27.0% (19.8-35.2) 0.65 (0.42-1.00)
Regularly exhausted 43.8% (38.0-49.7) ref 39.6% (33.9-45.3) 0.85 (0.68-1.08) 42.7% (35.5-50.2) 1.00 (0.69- 1.44) 42.1% (33.7-50.8) 0.96 (0.65-1.43)
Needed more emotional support 45.6% (39.8-51.5) ref 24.8% (20.0-30.2) 0.39 (0.29- 0.53) 29.2% (22.8-36.4) 0.48 (0.33- 0.71) 19.0% (12.9-26.6) 0.28 (0.17-0.46)

Number of missing observations range from: T1 (0-2), T2 (0-2), T3 (0-2), T4 (0-2)

Bold ORs indicate that they are significantly different compared to T1