Table 1.
Description of physicians at baseline and at three-year follow-up after a counselling intervention.
| Baseline | Three-year Follow up |
Level of significance | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) or Number (%, 95% CI) |
Mean (SD) or Number (%, 95% CI) |
McNemar's test | |
|
Age (years at baseline) n = 184 |
46.8 (8.9) | ||
|
Gender: Men/women n = 184 |
83 (45%)/101 (55%) | ||
|
Married/cohabiting n = 184 |
152 (82.6, 77.1-88.1) |
135 (73.4, 67.0-79.8) |
p = 0.007** |
| Have children aged <16 years | 90/184 (48.9, 41.7-56.1) |
74/171 (40.2, 32.9-47.5) |
p = 0.02* |
|
Specialty n = 184 |
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| Internal medicine | 27 (14.7, 9.6 - 19.8) |
34 (18.5, 12.9-24.1) |
p = 0.02* |
| Surgery | 30 (16.3, 11.0-21.6) |
34 (18.5, 12.9-24.5) |
p = 0.22 |
| Psychiatry | 16 (8.7, 4.6 - 12.8) |
17 (9.2, 5.0 - 13.4) |
p = 1.00 |
| General practice | 45 (24.5, 18.3 - 30.7) |
50 (27.2, 20.8 - 33.6) |
p = 0.18 |
| Social and laboratory med. | 16 (8.7, 4.6 - 12.8) |
19 (10.3, 5.9 - 14.7) |
p = 0.25 |
| Non-specialist | 50 (27.2, 20.8 - 33.6) |
18 (9.8, 5.5 - 14.1) |
p < 0.001*** |
| Missing | 12 (6.5, 2.9 - 10.1) |
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| Proportion on full time sick leave at present n = 184 | 60 (32.6%, 25.8 - 39.4)) |
10 (5.4%, 2.1 - 8.7) |
p < 0.001*** |
| t-test | |||
| Level of emotional exhaustion (1-5) n = 164 | 3.0 (0.9) | 2.4 (0.8) | t = 7.6 p < 0.001*** |
| Level of job stress (1-5) n = 173 | 2.4 (0.7) | 1.9 (0.6) | t = 8.2 p < 0.001*** |
| Level of emotion-focused coping (1-5) n = 183 | 2.9 (0.8) | 2.5 (0.8) | t = 7.0 p < 0.001*** |
| Level of neuroticism (1-6) n = 182 | 2.6 (1.8) | 2.0 (1.8) | t = 5.0 p < 0.001*** |
| Wilcoxon rank test | |||
|
Number of weeks on full time sick leave/disability/ rehab benefits during the preceding year |
4.4 (7.9) (n = 172) |
3.2 (9.8) (n = 178) |
z = -3.1 p = 0.002** |
| Work hours per week (h) | 43.2 (8.5) (n = 176) |
39.6 (11.2) (n = 166) |
z = -3.7 p < 0.001*** |
*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001