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Table 3 Bivariate analysis and multivariate analysis of factors associated with probable depression

From: Post-traumatic stress disorder and depression prevalence and associated risk factors among local disaster relief and reconstruction workers fourteen months after the Great East Japan Earthquake: a cross-sectional study

 

Local municipality workers

Hospital medical workers

Firefighters

Bivariate analysis

β

SE

OR

P

β

SE

OR

P

β

SE

OR

P

Age

0.00

0.01

1.00

0.88

0.03

0.02

1.04

<0.05

0.01

0.02

1.01

0.68

Female sex

−0.27

0.24

0.77

0.27

0.56

0.49

1.75

0.26

    

Workplace factors

            

Supervisory work status

0.17

0.32

1.18

0.61

−0.4

0.63

0.67

0.53

−0.02

1.06

0.98

0.99

Mainly disaster-related work

0.87

0.24

2.38

<0.001

−1.18

1.04

0.31

0.26

−0.33

0.68

0.72

0.63

Lack of communication

1.31

0.25

3.71

<0.001

1.17

0.32

3.22

<0.001

0.95

0.81

2.59

0.24

Lack of rest

1.32

0.26

3.73

<0.001

1.22

0.32

3.39

<0.001

1.83

0.60

6.25

<0.01

Dead or missing colleague(s)

−0.29

0.32

0.75

0.37

−0.41

0.50

0.66

0.41

0.28

0.79

1.32

0.73

Personal factors

            

Displacement

0.58

0.26

1.78

<0.05

0.24

0.32

1.27

0.46

1.01

0.60

2.76

0.09

Dead or missing family member(s)

0.96

0.38

2.62

<0.05

−0.35

0.55

0.70

0.52

0.54

0.80

1.72

0.50

Near-death experience

0.00

0.23

1.00

0.99

0.77

0.35

2.16

<0.05

0.22

0.60

1.25

0.71

Multivariate analysis

β

SE

OR

P

β

SE

OR

P

β

SE

OR

P

Age

    

0.03

0.02

1.03

0.05

    

Female sex

            

Workplace factors

            

Supervisory work status

            

Mainly disaster-related work

0.66

0.25

1.94

<0.05

        

Lack of communication

1.11

0.26

3.02

<0.001

1.14

0.34

3.11

<0.001

    

Lack of rest

0.99

0.27

2.70

<0.001

1.07

0.33

2.93

<0.001

    

Dead or missing colleague(s)

            

Personal factors

            

Displacement

0.32

0.28

1.38

0.25

        

Dead or missing family member(s)

0.76

0.44

2.14

0.08

        

Near-death experience

    

0.80

0.37

2.22

<0.05

    
  1. SE = standard error, OR = adjusted odds ratio.