Table 3.

Perceived impact of the outbreak on personal life and work.

	Private PCP (n = 100)	Public PCP (n = 66)	OR (95% CI)	aOR* (95% CI)
I would be afraid of telling my family about the risks I am exposed to	20 (20.0)	16 (24.2)	0.78 (0.37, 1.65)	0.75 (0.34, 1.67)
People would avoid me because of my job	43 (43.0)	20 (30.3)	1.74 (0.90, 3.35)	1.73 (0.87, 3.44)
People would avoid my family members because of my job	33 (33.0)	8 (12.1)	3.57 (1.53, 8.34)	4.27 (1.74, 10.44)
I would avoid telling other people about the nature of my job	14 (14.0)	18 (27.3)	0.43 (0.20, 0.95)	0.49 (0.22, 1.10)
There would be adequate staff at my workplace to handle the increased demand	42 (42.0)	32 (48.5)	0.77 (0.41, 1.44)	0.67 (0.35, 1.30)
There would be more conflict amongst colleagues at work	31 (31.0)	17 (25.8)	1.30 (0.65, 2.60)	1.19 (0.57, 2.49)
I would feel more stressed at work	73 (73.0)	48 (72.7)	1.01 (0.50, 2.04)	1.02 (0.49, 2.12)
I would have an increase in workload	64 (64.0)	47 (71.2)	0.72 (0.37, 1.41)	0.72 (0.36, 1.45)
I would have to work overtime	45 (45.0)	35 (53.8)	0.70 (0.38, 1.31)	0.70 (0.36, 1.35)
I would have to do work not normally done by me	70 (70.0)	47 (71.2)	0.94 (0.48, 1.87)	0.94 (0.46, 1.91)

Cronbach’s alpha for all items = 0.79 (Private PCP); 0.79 (Public PCP).

Frequencies may not add up to total study sample size due to missing data.

^*Public PCP used as reference group; adjusted for gender, ethnicity (dichotomised as “Chinese”, “non-Chinese”), and age (dichotomised as “39 years and below”, “40 years and above”).