Table 2.
Workplace Violence, Depression, PTSD, Anxiety, and Suicidal Ideation Among Public Health Workers, March 2021–April 2021, U.S.
| Type of violence | Depression |
PTSD |
Anxiety |
Suicidal ideation |
Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical, n (%) | PR (95% CI) | Yes, n (%) | PR (95% CI) | Yes, n (%) | PR (95% CI) | Yes, n (%) | PR (95% CI) | ||
| No violence | 3,235 (23) | ref | 3,790 (27) | ref | 3,380 (23) | ref | 894 (6) | ref | 14,443 (64) |
| Any type or combination of violence | 3,505 (45) | 1.95 (1.87, 2.03) | 4,216 (54) | 2.0 (1.93, 2.07) | 3,514 (43) | 1.87 (1.80, 1.94) | 983 (12) | 1.99 (1.83, 2.18) | 7,964 (35) |
| Single type of violence | 1,537 (40) | 1.72 (1.62, 1.83) | 1,775 (46) | 1.70 (1.61, 1.79) | 1,567 (39) | 1.68 (1.58, 1.78) | 392 (10) | 1.60 (1.42, 1.80) | 3,966 (18) |
| Any 2 types of violence | 1,076 (46) | 2.00 (1.87, 2.15) | 1,337 (57) | 2.12 (2.0, 2.25) | 1,073 (44) | 1.91 (1.78, 2.05) | 309 (13) | 2.1 (1.84, 2.39) | 2,382 (11) |
| All 3 types of violence | 892 (56) | 2.43 (2.26, 2.62) | 1,104 (69) | 2.57 (2.40, 2.74) | 874 (53) | 2.28 (2.18, 2.46) | 281 (17) | 2.82 (2.47, 3.22) | 1,616 (7) |
| Totala | 6,740 (31) | 8,006 (37) | 6,894 (30) | 1,877 (8) | |||||
Note: The public health workers included are state, tribal, local, and territorial.
PR, prevalence ratio; PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder.
a
Cells may not sum to 100 owing to rounding.