Table 4.
Association of risk perceptions and altruistic acceptance of risk with mental health dimensions
| Risk perceptions | Total, n (%)a | Anxiety |
Depression |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
n (%)b |
n (%)b |
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| Yes n = 47 |
No n = 146 | P value | Yes n = 44 | No n = 149 | P value | ||
| I believed that my job was putting me at great risk | 134 (69) | 37 (79) | 97 (66) | 0.11 | 38 (86) | 96 (64) | 0.01 |
| I felt extra stress at work | 127 (66) | 39 (83) | 88 (60) | 0.004 | 36 (82) | 91 (61) | 0.01 |
| I was afraid of falling ill with COVID-19 | 114 (59) | 34 (72) | 80 (55) | 0.03 | 34 (77) | 80 (54) | 0.01 |
| I felt I had little control over whether I would get infected or not | 83 (43) | 25 (53) | 58 (40) | 0.11 | 60 (40) | 23 (53) | 0.16 |
| I thought I would be unlikely to survive if I were to get COVID-19 | 20 (10) | 10 (21) | 10 (7) | 0.01 | 11 (25) | 9 (6) | 0.00 |
| I thought about resigning because of COVID-19* | 6 (3) | 2 (4) | 4 (2.7) | 0.64 | 1 (2.3) | 5 (3) | 1.00 |
| I was afraid I would pass COVID-19 on to others | 148 (77) | 41 (87) | 107 (73) | 0.05 | 38 (86) | 110 (74) | 0.08 |
| My family and friends were worried that they might get infected through me | 115 (60) | 32 (68) | 86 (57) | 0.17 | 30 (68) | 85 (57) | 0.19 |
| People avoided my family because of my work | 49 (25) | 19 (40) | 30 (21) | 0.01 | 17 (35) | 32 (21) | 0.02 |
| Altruistic acceptance of risk | |||||||
| I accept the risk of caring for COVID-19 patient | 135 (70) | 28 (60) | 107 (73) | 0.08 | 25 (57) | 110 (74) | 0.03 |
aShown as percentage of the total number who perceived some threat.
bShown as percentage of the total number who screened positive for anxiety or depression.