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Table 4 Bivariate analysis and multivariate analysis of factors associated with high general psychological distress

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

0.02

1.00

0.96

0.02

0.02

1.02

0.14

0.01

0.03

1.01

0.63

Female sex

−0.26

0.37

0.77

0.48

1.59

0.74

4.90

<0.05

    

Workplace factors

            

Supervisory work status

0.07

0.50

1.07

0.90

−0.05

0.56

0.95

0.93

−17.67

8038.59

0.00

1.00

Mainly disaster-related work

1.54

0.38

4.68

<0.001

0.09

0.64

1.09

0.90

−1.18

1.08

0.31

0.27

Lack of communication

0.44

0.39

1.56

0.26

0.97

0.32

2.65

<0.01

2.75

0.75

15.67

<0.001

Lack of rest

1.71

0.43

5.55

<0.001

1.05

0.32

2.87

<0.01

1.49

0.72

4.44

<0.05

Dead or missing colleague(s)

−0.13

0.46

0.88

0.77

−0.66

0.54

0.52

0.22

0.64

1.08

1.90

0.55

Personal factors

            

Displacement

1.16

0.36

3.19

<0.01

0.40

0.32

1.49

0.21

−0.63

1.08

0.54

0.56

Dead or missing family member(s)

1.52

0.47

4.56

<0.01

0.75

0.41

2.12

0.07

2.20

0.73

9.00

<0.01

Near-death experience

0.79

0.37

2.20

<0.05

1.02

0.37

2.77

<0.01

1.02

0.83

2.77

0.22

Multivariate analysis

β

SE

OR

P

β

SE

OR

P

β

SE

OR

P

Age

            

Female sex

    

1.34

0.76

3.81

0.08

    

Workplace factors

            

Supervisory work status

            

Mainly disaster-related work

1.36

0.40

3.89

<0.01

        

Lack of communication

    

1.01

0.34

2.75

<0.01

2.60

0.89

13.41

<0.01

Lack of rest

1.36

0.45

3.90

<0.001

0.84

0.33

2.31

<0.05

0.92

0.86

2.51

0.28

Dead or missing colleague(s)

            

Personal factors

            

Displacement

0.82

0.39

2.27

<0.05

        

Dead or missing family member(s)

1.48

0.54

4.37

<0.01

    

2.41

0.83

11.11

<0.01

Near-death experience

1.00

0.41

2.72

<0.05

0.93

0.38

2.53

<0.05

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