Table 2. Severity categories of anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and depression by profession, sex, and hospital type.
| Severity of Symptoms | Profession | Sex | Hospitals | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. (%) | ||||||||||||||
| Allied Health (N = 1075) | Nurses (N = 1298) | Physicians (N = 357) | Non-Clinical (N = 1122) | Total (N = 3852) | P Value | Male (N = 572) | Female (N = 3065) | Total (N = 3637) | P Value | Community (N = 1919) | Tertiary (N = 1770) | Total (N = 3689) | P Value | |
| IES-R, PTSD | < .001 | < .001 | < .001 | |||||||||||
| Normal | 186 (19.3) | 179 (15.5) | 108 (33.9) | 186 (20.3) | 659 (19.6) | 150 (28.6) | 501 (18.0) | 651 (19.6) | 387 (22.1) | 271 (16.9) | 658 (19.6) | |||
| Mild | 304 (31.6) | 331 (28.6) | 111 (34.8) | 267 (29.1) | 1013 (30.2) | 155 (29.6) | 845 (30.3) | 1000 (30.2) | 559 (32.0) | 454 (28.3) | 1013 (30.2) | |||
| Moderate | 163 (16.9) | 177 (15.3) | 39 (12.2) | 151 (16.4) | 530 (15.8) | 62 (11.8) | 463 (16.6) | 525 (15.8) | 264 (15.1) | 264 (16.5) | 528 (15.7) | |||
| Severe | 310 (32.2) | 470 (40.6) | 61 (19.1) | 314 (34.2) | 1155 (34.4) | 157 (30.0) | 981 (35.2) | 1138 (34.3) | 539 (30.8) | 615 (38.3) | 1154 (34.4) | |||
| GAD-7, Anxiety | < .001 | < .001 | < .001 | |||||||||||
| Normal | 432 (45.0) | 498 (43.4) | 200 (61.3) | 434 (47.1) | 1564 (46.6) | 304 (57.3) | 1242 (44.6) | 1546 (46.7) | 916 (51.6) | 648 (41.1) | 1564 (46.7) | |||
| Mild | 295 (30.8) | 337 (29.4) | 75 (23.0) | 257 (27.9) | 964 (28.7) | 133 (25.0) | 826 (29.7) | 959 (28.9) | 459 (25.9) | 503 (31.9) | 962 (28.7) | |||
| Moderate | 149 (15.5) | 195 (17.0) | 36 (11.0) | 145 (15.7) | 525 (15.6) | 63 (11.9) | 452 (16.2) | 515 (15.5) | 263 (14.8) | 261 (16.6) | 524 (15.6) | |||
| Severe | 83 (8.7) | 118 (10.3) | 15 (4.6) | 86 (9.3) | 302 (9.0) | 31 (5.8) | 262 (9.4) | 293 (8.8) | 137 (7.7) | 165 (10.5) | 302 (9.0) | |||
| PHQ-9, Depression | < .001 | < .001 | < .001 | |||||||||||
| Normal | 400 (41.7) | 438 (37.9) | 194 (59.3) | 347 (37.6) | 1379 (41.0) | 267 (50.4) | 1098 (39.3) | 1365 (41.1) | 810 (45.4) | 569 (36.0) | 1379 (41.0) | |||
| Mild | 268 (27.9) | 325 (28.1) | 77 (23.5) | 258 (28.0) | 928 (27.6) | 133 (25.1) | 787 (28.2) | 920 (27.7) | 461 (25.9) | 464 (29.4) | 925 (27.5) | |||
| Moderate | 248 (25.8) | 306 (26.4) | 49 (15.0) | 251 (27.2) | 854 (25.4) | 104 (19.6) | 737 (26.4) | 841 (25.3) | 410 (23.0) | 444 (28.1) | 854 (25.4) | |||
| Severe | 44 (4.6) | 88 (7.6) | 7 (2.1) | 66 (7.2) | 205 (6.1) | 26 (4.9) | 173 (6.2) | 199 (6.0) | 102 (5.7) | 103 (6.5) | 205 (6.1) | |||
IES-R, 22-item Impact of Event Scale-Revised, PTSD: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; GAD-7, 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder; PHQ-9, 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire.