The effects of living environment on disaster workers: a one–year longitudinal study

BMC Psychiatry

Table 3 Results of multiple logistic regression analyses

		Reference	β	s.e.	Adjusted OR	95 % CI	P value
High-PTSR^a
Gender	Female	(Male)	0.13	1.05	1.13	0.15–8.83	0.90
Rank	Officer	(Private/Sergeant)	0.30	0.54	1.35	0.47–3.86	0.57
Dispatch period	1 to 3 months	(<1 month)	−0.32	0.27	0.73	0.43–1.22	0.23
Exposure to corpses	Present	(Not present)	0.21	0.28	1.23	0.71–2.15	0.47
Living environment	Sharing the premises with the victims	(Only with troop members)	1.22	0.26	3.39	2.04–5.64	<0.001
High-GPD^b
Rank	Officer	(Private/Sergeant)	0.53	0.62	1.69	0.50–5.69	0.40
Dispatch period	1 to 3 months	(<1 month)	0.33	0.38	1.39	0.66–2.90	0.38
Exposure to corpses	Present	(Not present)	0.00	0.36	1.00	0.50–2.00	0.99
Living environment	Sharing the premises with the victims	(Only with troop members)	1.21	0.33	3.35	1.77–6.34	<0.001

PTSR post-traumatic stress response, GPD general psychological distress, OR odds ratio
^aDefined as those who scored ≥25 on the Japanese version of the Impact of Events Scale-Revised at least once during the research period (N = 71)
^bDefined as those who scored ≥25 on the Japanese version of the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale at least once during the research period (N = 43)

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