Table 1.
Characteristics of participants.
| Variable |
Overall, N = 4,188a |
Nurses without shifts, N = 1,035a |
Nurses with shifts, N = 3,153a |
p-valueb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workplace | < 0.001 | |||
| Tertiary hospital | 1,290 (31%) | 214 (21%) | 1,076 (34%) | |
| Secondary hospital | 898 (21%) | 281 (27%) | 617 (20%) | |
| Primary hospital | 2,000 (48%) | 540 (52%) | 1,460 (46%) | |
| Gender | < 0.001 | |||
| Female | 4,099 (98%) | 1,027 (99%) | 3,072 (97%) | |
| Male | 89 (2%) | 8 (1%) | 81 (3%) | |
| Age, years | 30 (26, 35) | 36 (30, 43) | 29 (25, 32) | < 0.001 |
| Practicing years | 8 (4, 13) | 15 (9, 23) | 7 (3, 10) | < 0.001 |
| Title | < 0.001 | |||
| Junior title | 2,536 (61%) | 340 (33%) | 2,196 (70%) | |
| Nurses in charge | 1,464 (35%) | 537 (52%) | 927 (29%) | |
| Chief nurses | 188 (5%) | 158 (15%) | 30 (1%) | |
| Head nurse | 370 (9%) | 260 (25%) | 110 (4%) | < 0.001 |
| Education | 0.2 | |||
| Junior college or below | 1,110 (27%) | 254 (25%) | 856 (27%) | |
| Bachelor degree | 2,910 (69%) | 733 (71%) | 2,177 (69%) | |
| Master degree or above | 168 (4%) | 48 (4%) | 120 (4%) | |
| Partnership | < 0.001 | |||
| Single | 840 (20%) | 58 (5%) | 782 (25%) | |
| Partnered | 382 (9%) | 18 (2%) | 364 (11%) | |
| Married | 2,866 (68%) | 920 (89%) | 1,946 (62%) | |
| Widowed | 100 (3%) | 39 (4%) | 61 (2%) | |
| Family monthly income, CNY | < 0.001 | |||
| < 10,000 | 2,063 (50%) | 452 (44%) | 1,611 (51%) | |
| 10,000–30,000 | 1,684 (40%) | 479 (46%) | 1,205 (38%) | |
| 30,000–50,000 | 221 (5%) | 49 (5%) | 172 (6%) | |
| >50,000 | 220 (5%) | 55 (5%) | 165 (5%) | |
| Frontline experience | 882 (21%) | 184 (18%) | 698 (22%) | 0.003 |
| GAD7 | 4 (1, 7) | 3 (0, 7) | 4 (1, 7) | < 0.001 |
| PHQ9 | 6 (2, 9) | 4 (2, 8) | 6 (3, 9) | < 0.001 |
| ISI | 8 (4, 11) | 7 (3, 11) | 8 (4, 12) | < 0.001 |
| Anxiety | 1,935 (46%) | 431 (42%) | 1,504 (48%) | < 0.001 |
| Depression | 2,457 (59%) | 515 (50%) | 1,942 (62%) | < 0.001 |
| Insomnia | 2,287 (55%) | 501 (48%) | 1,786 (57%) | < 0.001 |
| At least one distress | 2,917 (70%) | 669 (65%) | 2,248 (71%) | < 0.001 |
aMedian (IQR); n (%).
bWilcoxon rank sum test; Pearson's Chi-squared test.