Table 2.
Group differences in 12-month prevalence of perceived bullying at work from colleagues or superiors at least few times a month for Norwegian doctors in the cross-sectional data from 1993, 2004 and 2014–2015
| 1993 (n=2439) | 2004 (n=730) | 2014–2015 (n=1080) | ||||
| n | % (95% CI) | n | % (95% CI) | n | % (95% CI) | |
| All doctors | 139 | 5.7 (4.8 to 6.6) | 53 | 7.3 (5.4 to 9.2) | 76 | 7.0 (4.5 to 8.5) |
| Gender | ||||||
| Females | 57 | 8.3 (6.5 to 10.7) | 11 | 4.8 (3.0 to 8.4) | 43 | 9.2 (6.6 to 11.8) |
| Males | 82 | 4.7 (3.8 to 5.8) | 42 | 8.4 (6.3 to 11.2) | 33 | 5.4 (3.6 to 7.2) |
| Age by years | ||||||
| 25–35 | 31 | 5.6 (3.9 to 7.8) | 0 | 0.0 (–) | 11 | 6.7 (3.8 to 11.6) |
| 36–45 | 56 | 5.8 (4.5 to 7.5) | 11 | 10.9 (6.2 to 18.5) | 25 | 8.5 (5.8 to 12.3) |
| 46–55 | 38 | 6.0 (4.4 to 8.2) | 16 | 7.7 (4.8 to 12.1) | 20 | 8.1 (5.3 to 12.1) |
| 56–65 | 13 | 5.3 (3.1 to 8.9) | 20 | 5.8 (3.8 to 8.9) | 19 | 6.1 (4.0 to 9.4) |
| 66–69 | 1 | 2.1 (0.4 to 11.1) | 6 | 10.2 (4.7 to 20.5) | 1 | 1.6 (0.3 to 8.3) |
| Job positions | ||||||
| Specialty registrars | 67 | 7.2 (5.7 to 9.1) | 6 | 5.2 (2.4 to 10.9) | 11 | 6.5 (2.8 to 10.2) |
| Senior hospital consultants | 11 | 14.3 (8.2 to 23.8) | 19 | 10.2 (6.6 to 15.4) | 34 | 9.7 (6.6 to 12.8) |
| Doctors in hospital management positions | 1 | 11.1 (2.0 to 43.5) | 9 | 9.6 (5.1 to 17.2) | 10 | 9.7 (4.0 to 15.4) |
| Community medical officers | 27 | 5.7 (4.0 to 8.2) | 2 | 6.5 (1.8 to 20.7) | 0 | 0.0 (–) |
| General practitioners | 6 | 2.4 (1.1 to 5.2) | 8 | 4.3 (2.2 to 8.3) | 9 | 4.0 (1.5 to 6.6) |
| Specialists in private practice | 1 | 9.1 (1.6 to 37.7) | 2 | 4.3 (1.2 to 14.2) | 0 | 0.0 (–) |
| Doctors in academia positions | 7 | 7.3 (3.6 to 14.3) | 3 | 11.5 (4.0 to 29.0) | 7 | 11.3 (3.4 to 19.2) |
| Doctors in administrative positions | 1 | 16.7 (3.0 to 56.4) | 1 | 11.1 (2.0 to 43.5) | 2 | 7.1 (−2.4 to 16.6) |
| Other | 18 | 3.0 (1.9 to 4.8) | 3 | 7.9 (2.7 to 20.8) | 3 | 8.8 (−0.7 to 18.3) |
| 1993 (n=1014) | 2004 (n=395) | 2004–2015 (n=618) | ||||
| n | % (95% CI) | n | % (95% CI) | n | % (95% CI) | |
| All hospital doctors* | 79 | 7.8 (6.3 to 9.6) | 34 | 8.6 (6.2 to 11.8) | 54 | 8.7 (6.4 to 10.8) |
| Internal medicine | 15 | 4.9 (3.0 to 8.0) | 11 | 7.5 (4.2 to 12.9) | 18 | 6.9 (4.4 to 10.7) |
| Laboratory medicine | 5 | 7.9 (3.4 to 17.3) | 5 | 8.9 (3.9 to 19.3) | 6 | 8.5 (3.9 to 17.2) |
| Surgery | 25 | 11.1 (7.6 to 15.9) | 13 | 11.7 (7.0 to 19.0) | 15 | 9.3 (5.7 to 14.8) |
| Psychiatry | 6 | 5.2 (2.4 to 10.8) | 4 | 5.4 (2.1 to 13.1) | 12 | 10.3 (6.0 to 17.2) |
| Other | 28 | 9.2 (6.5 to 13.0) | 1 | 14.3 (2.6 to 51.3) | 3 | 30.0 (10.8 to 60.3) |
*Hospital doctors include specialty registrars, senior hospital doctors and doctors in hospital management positions. Missing for medical disciplines in datasets: n=11 in 1993, n=46 in 2004, n=10 in 2014–2015.