Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of mental health professionals.
| Variables |
Total (N = 10,516) |
Non-WPV group (N = 8568) |
WPV group (N = 1948) |
χ2 |
df |
p |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||||
| Male gender | 1635 | 15.5 | 1246 | 14.5 | 389 | 20.0 | 35.5 | 1 | <0.01 |
| Married | 7273 | 69.2 | 5909 | 69.0 | 1364 | 70.0 | 0.8 | 1 | 0.36 |
| College education and above | 9635 | 91.6 | 7806 | 91.1 | 1829 | 93.9 | 16.0 | 1 | <0.01 |
| Living with family | 8629 | 82.1 | 7065 | 82.5 | 1564 | 80.3 | 5.0 | 1 | 0.02 |
| Junior rank | 7341 | 69.8 | 6074 | 70.9 | 1267 | 65.0 | 25.7 | 1 | <0.01 |
| Experience during SARS | 948 | 9.0 | 761 | 8.9 | 187 | 9.6 | 0.9 | 1 | 0.31 |
| Working in tertiary hospitals | 6564 | 62.4 | 5259 | 61.4 | 1305 | 67.0 | 21.3 | 1 | <0.01 |
| Working in inpatient department | 9642 | 91.7 | 7886 | 92.0 | 1756 | 90.1 | 7.4 | 1 | <0.01 |
| Shift duty | 7719 | 73.4 | 6273 | 73.2 | 1446 | 74.2 | 0.8 | 1 | 0.36 |
| Local COVID-19 cases ≥ 500 | 1361 | 12.9 | 1069 | 12.5 | 292 | 15.0 | 8.8 | 1 | <0.01 |
| Having family/friends/colleagues infected with COVID-19 | 213 | 2.0 | 144 | 1.7 | 69 | 3.5 | 27.7 | 1 | <0.01 |
| Caring for infected patients | 235 | 2.2 | 131 | 1.5 | 104 | 5.3 | 105.4 | 1 | <0.01 |
| Current smoker | 854 | 8.1 | 630 | 7.4 | 224 | 11.5 | 36.5 | 1 | <0.01 |
|
Mean |
SD |
Mean |
SD |
Mean |
SD |
t/Z |
df |
p |
|
| Age (years) | 33.2 | 8.4 | 33.1 | 8.4 | 33.5 | 8.1 | −1.6 | 10514 | 0.10 |
| Work experience (years) | 11.6 | 9.1 | 11.6 | 9.1 | 11.9 | 8.8 | −2.8a | – | <0.01 |
| GAD-7 total | 2.2 | 3.4 | 1.7 | 2.9 | 4.5 | 4.5 | −31.9a | – | <0.01 |
| Overall QOL | 6.6 | 1.6 | 6.8 | 1.5 | 5.9 | 1.5 | 22.9 | 10514 | <0.01 |
| a: Mann-Whitney U test; Bolded values: p < 0.05; SD: standard deviation; COVID-19: Corona Virus Disease 2019; SARS: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome; GAD-7: 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale; QOL: Quality of Life; WPV: Workplace violence | |||||||||