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. 2021 Jun 18. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1016/j.rpsm.2021.06.001

Table 1.

Characteristics of the respondents stratified by perceived discrimination.

All Perceived discrimination p-Value
(N = 2,053) No (N = 1,330) Yes (N = 616)
Age, Me [range] 41 [19,69] 43 [20,68] 37 [19,69] <0.001
 Missing 75 (3.7%) 51 (3.8%) 17 (2.8%)



Gender 0.48
 Female 1,605 (78.2%) 1,022 (76.8%) 483 (78.4%)
 Male 443 (21.6%) 305 (22.9%) 132 (21.4%)
 Missing 5 (0.2%) 3 (0.2%) 1 (0.2%)



Type of job <0.001
 Physicians 751 (36.6%) 522 (39.2%) 201 (32.6%)
 Nurses 727 (35.4%) 426 (32.0%) 260 (42.2%)
 Health technicians 221 (10.8%) 131 (9.8%) 71 (11.5%)
 Ancillary workers 136 (6.6%) 85 (6.4%) 45 (7.3%)
 Other HCWs 218 (10.6%) 166 (12.5%) 39 (6.3%)



Personal history of a mental disorder 1
 No 1,547 (75.4%) 1,053 (79.2%) 493 (80.0%)
 Yes 106 (5.2%) 72 (5.4%) 34 (5.5%)
 Missing 400 (19.5%) 205 (15.4%) 89 (14.4%)



Depression (PHQ-9), (0-27), M (SD) 7.37 (5.36) 6.53 (4.86) 9.16 (5.91) <0.001
 Missing 350 (17.0%) 171 (12.9%) 73 (11.9%)



Psychological distress (GHQ-12), (0-12) 5.25 (3.39) 4.86 (3.32) 6.09 (3.39) <0.001
 Missing 285 (13.9%) 123 (9.2%) 56 (9.1%)



Death thoughts (C-SSRS) <0.001
 No 1,559 (75.9%) 1,076 (80.9%) 482 (78.2%)
 Yes 115 (5.6%) 61 (4.6%) 54 (8.8%)
 Missing 379 (18.5%) 193 (14.5%) 80 (13.0%)

Note. PHQ-9 = Patient Health Questionnaire – 9 items, GHQ-12 = General Health Questionnaire – 12 items, C-SSRS = Columbia – Suicide Severity Rating Scale. p-Values from Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test (Age, Depression, and Psychological Distress), Fisher's Exact Test (Gender, Personal history of a mental disorder, and Death thoughts), and Pearson's chi-squared test (Type of job).