Table 2.
Employment characteristics of emergency and non-emergency services personnel.
| Employment Characteristics | Emergency services personnel n = 842 n (%) |
Non-emergency services personnel n = 4210 n (%) |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job duration | < 0.001 | ||
| ≤ 5 years | 111 (13.2) | 1313 (31.3) | |
| 6–10 years | 63 (7.5) | 868 (20.7) | |
| 11–20 years | 196 (23.3) | 970 (23.1) | |
| > 20 years | 472 (56.1) | 1050 (25.0) | |
| Average hours per working week | < 0.001 | ||
| < 21 hours | 41 (4.9) | 524 (12.6) | |
| 21–40 hours | 399 (47.7) | 2184 (52.5) | |
| 41–50 hours | 337 (40.3) | 1186 (28.5) | |
| > 50 hours | 60 (7.2) | 269 (6.5) | |
| Job involves shift work | < 0.001 | ||
| Never/rarely | 196 (23.3) | 3638 (86.6) | |
| Sometimes | 228 (27.1) | 251 (6.0) | |
| Usually/always | 417 (49.6) | 314 (7.5) |
Numbers may not add up due to missing data. P-values derived using Pearson’s Chi-Squared Test.