Table 5.
Anamnestic, related to the earthquake experience, social functioning variables, and the sample’s levels of stress according to the absence/presence of high burnout as percentages (%) or mean values with SDs and their association with high burnout by univariate logistic regression.
| High burnout |
Univariate logistic regression |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | No | Yes | p-Value* | OR | 95% CI | p-Value | |
| N = 284 | n = 218 | n = 66 | |||||
| Direct exposure to the L’Aquila earthquake | 0.142 | ||||||
| Noa | 160 (56.34) | 128 (58.72) | 32 (48.48) | 1 | |||
| Yes | 124 (43.66) | 90 (41.28) | 34 (51.52) | 3.05 | 1.70–5.46 | 0.001 | |
| Grief | 0.069 | ||||||
| Noa | 236 (83.10) | 186 (85.32) | 50 (75.76) | 1 | |||
| Yes | 48 (16.90) | 32 (14.68) | 16 (24.24) | 1.86 | 0.95–3.66 | 0.072 | |
| Psychological history | 0.218 | ||||||
| Noa | 114 (40.43) | 92 (42.40) | 22 (33.85) | 1 | |||
| Yes | 168 (59.57) | 125 (57.60) | 43 (66.15) | 1.44 | 0.81–2.57 | 0.219 | |
| Help request | 0.497 | ||||||
| Noa | 56 (25.69) | 45 (26.79) | 11 (22.00) | 1 | |||
| Yes | 162 (74.31) | 123 (73.21) | 39 (78.00) | 1.30 | 0.61–2.75 | 0.497 | |
| Treatment | 0.931 | ||||||
| Noa | 227 (79.93) | 174 (79.82) | 53 (80.30) | 1 | |||
| Yes | 57 (20.07) | 44 (20.18) | 13 (19.70) | 0.97 | 0.49–1.94 | 0.931 | |
| Social functioning | 0.001 | ||||||
| Gooda | 40 (14.13) | 32 (14.75) | 8 (12.12) | 1 | |||
| Moderate | 229 (80.92) | 180 (82.95) | 49 (74.24) | 1.09 | 0.47–2.51 | 0.842 | |
| Nothing | 14 (4.95) | 5 (2.30) | 9 (13.64) | 7.20 | 1.89–27.49 | 0.004 | |
| GHQ-12 | <0.001 | ||||||
| Normal level of stressa | 135 (47.54) | 124 (56.88) | 11 (16.67) | 1 | |||
| Presence of stress | 91 (32.04) | 73 (33.49) | 18 (27.27) | 2.78 | 1.24–6.21 | 0.013 | |
| Pathological distress with psychological aftermath | 58 (20.42) | 21 (9.63) | 37 (56.06) | 19.86 | 8.78–44.95 | <0.001 | |
aReference category.
*χ2 test or χ2 test for trend.