Table 1 Demographic characteristics of participants by geographical region
From: Workforce situation of the Chinese mental health care system: results from a cross-sectional study
Characteristics | Geographical Regions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total (N = 3824) | Eastern area (N = 1401) | Central area (N = 872) | Western area (N = 1551) | P | |
Workforce types N (%) |  |  |  |  | <  0.001 |
 Psychiatrist | 1495 (39.1) | 736 (52.5) | 262 (30.0) | 497 (32.0) |  |
 Psychotherapist | 263 (6.9) | 133 (9.5) | 66 (7.6) | 64 (4.1) |  |
 Counselor | 193 (5.0) | 75 (5.4) | 66 (7.6) | 52 (3.4) |  |
 Nurse | 1487 (38.9) | 248 (24.8) | 379 (43.5) | 760 (49.0) |  |
 Other | 386 (10.1) | 109 (7.8) | 99 (11.4) | 178 (11.5) |  |
Age N (%) |  |  |  |  | <  0.001 |
 ≤ 45 | 3178 (83.7) | 1136 (81.3) | 739 (85.4) | 1303 (84.9) |  |
 >  45 | 619 (16.3) | 261 (18.7) | 126 (14.6) | 232 (15.1) |  |
Gender N (%) |  |  |  |  | <  0.001 |
 Male | 1172 (30.6) | 520 (37.1) | 310 (35.6) | 342 (22.1) |  |
 Female | 2652 (69.4) | 881 (62.9) | 562 (64.4) | 1209 (77.9) |  |
Education level N (%) |  |  |  |  | <  0.001 |
 High school or below | 103 (2.7) | 19 (1.4) | 55 (6.3) | 29 (1.9) |  |
 Junior college | 1015 (26.5) | 243 (17.3) | 289 (33.1) | 483 (31.1) |  |
 Bachelor | 2329 (60.9) | 927 (66.2) | 459 (52.6) | 943 (60.8) |  |
 Master | 355 (9.3) | 201 (14.3) | 65 (7.5) | 89 (5.7) |  |
 Doctor | 22 (0.6) | 11 (0.8) | 4 (0.5) | 7 (0.5) |  |
Title N (%) |  |  |  |  | <  0.001 |
 Primary | 1827 (47.8) | 524 (37.4) | 464 (53.2) | 839 (54.1) |  |
 Intermediate | 1117 (29.2) | 506 (36.1) | 227 (26.0) | 384 (24.8) |  |
• Subsenior | 476 (12.4) | 225 (16.1) | 75 (8.6) | 176 (11.3) |  |
 Senior | 137 (3.6) | 69 (4.9) | 23 (2.6) | 45 (2.9) |  |
 Other | 267 (7.0) | 77 (5.5) | 83 (9.5) | 107 (6.9) |  |
Hospital levels N (%) |  |  |  |  | <  0.001 |
 Tertiary general hospital | 315 (8.2) | 59 (4.2) | 70 (8.0) | 186 (12.0) |  |
 Tertiary psychiatric hospital | 1640 (42.9) | 454 (32.4) | 337 (38.6) | 859 (54.7) |  |
 Secondary-level general hospital | 394 (10.3) | 164 (11.7) | 126 (14.4) | 104 (6.7) |  |
 Secondary-level psychiatric hospital | 1121 (29.3) | 598 (42.7) | 238 (27.3) | 285 (18.4) |  |
Community hospitals | 354 (9.3) | 126 (9.0) | 101 (11.6) | 127 (8.2) | Â |