Table 1.
Sociodemographic, behavioral and occupational data of public intensive care unit professionals
| All professionals* | Nurses* | Physicians* | p value*† | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covariables | ||||
| Sex | < 0.001 | |||
| Male | 63 (21.3) | 16 (9.4) | 47 (43.1) | |
| Female | 178 (78.7) | 109 (90.6) | 69 (56.9) | |
| Age (years) | 0.580 | |||
| ≤ 35 | 97 (44.8) | 54 (47.2) | 43 (40.6) | |
| ≥ 36 | 144 (55.2) | 71 (52.8) | 73 (59.4) | |
| Marital status | 0.003 | |||
| With a partner | 147 (57.1) | 63 (46.3) | 84 (76.8) | |
| Not with a partner | 94 (42.9) | 62 (53.7) | 32 (23.2) | |
| Religion | 0.005 | |||
| Yes | 229 (96.6) | 122 (98.8) | 107 (92.7) | |
| No | 12 (3.4) | 3 (1.2) | 9 (7.3) | |
| Importance of religion | 0.007 | |||
| Very important | 223 (95.5) | 119 (97.8) | 104 (91.2) | |
| Not very/not important | 18 (4.5) | 6 (2.2) | 12 (8.8) | |
| ICU specialization | 0.529 | |||
| General | 108 (59.7) | 59 (62.7) | 49 (54.1) | |
| Cardiology | 29 (12.5) | 15 (12.7) | 14 (12.2) | |
| Infant | 95 (27.8) | 47 (24.6) | 48 (37.7) | |
| Exercise regularly | 0.241 | |||
| Yes | 80 (34.0) | 20 (27.9) | 60 (45.1) | |
| No | 161 (66.0) | 105 (72.1) | 56 (54.9) | |
| Postgraduate degree | 0.556 | |||
| Yes | 210 (91.0) | 104 (90.0) | 106 (92.8) | |
| No | 28 (9.0) | 18 (10.0) | 10 (7.2) | |
| Postgraduate degree related to ICU | 0.355 | |||
| Yes | 92 (53.7) | 49 (57.8) | 43 (46.5) | |
| No | 118 (46.3) | 56 (42.2) | 62 (53.5) | |
| Burnout dimensions | ||||
| Emotional exhaustion | 0.185 | |||
| Low | 94 (38.3) | 39 (33.1) | 55 (47.6) | |
| Average | 75 (35.3) | 45 (41.9) | 30 (23.4) | |
| High | 69 (26.4) | 38 (25.0) | 31 (29.0) | |
| Depersonalization | 0.120 | |||
| Low | 172 (70.2) | 91 (69.2) | 81 (72.1) | |
| Average | 51 (14.6) | 24 (10.8) | 27 (21.4) | |
| High | 15 (15.2) | 7 (20.0) | 8 (6.5) | |
| Reduced personal accomplishment | 0.371 | |||
| Low | 137 (55.1) | 66 (53.2) | 71 (58.5) | |
| Average | 75 (34.7) | 41 (39.0) | 34 (27.0) | |
| High | 26 (10.2) | 15 (7.8) | 11 (14.5) | |
| Burnout syndrome | ||||
| Maslach | 1 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.6) | 0.182 |
| Grunfeld | 89 (43.4) | 49 (44.7) | 40 (41.0) | 0.766 |
ICU - intensive care unit. Results expressed as n (%).
*
Weighted for the unequal probabilities of participant selection
†
Chi-squared.