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Table 2 Multilevel models predicting psychological distress

From: Healthcare workers’ heterogeneous mental-health responses to prolonging COVID-19 pandemic: a full year of monthly follow up in Finland

 

Model 1 (Nobs = 22,300; Nper = 4400)

Model 2 (Nobs = 21,670; Nper = 4366)

Model 3 (Nobs = 21,670; Nper = 4366)

Model 4 (Nobs = 21,670; Nper = 4366)

Model 5 (Nobs = 21,670; Nper = 4366)

Fixed effects

OR

CI

OR

CI

OR

CI

OR

CI

OR

CI

z(age)

0.58

0.51–0.67

0.63

0.55–0.71

0.62

0.55–0.7

0.62

0.55–0.71

0.62

0.55–0.70

Sex (female)

2.02

1.28–3.19

1.88

1.25–2.83

1.88

1.25–2.82

1.88

1.25–2.83

1.87

1.24–2.81

Direct care

1.56

1.29–1.88

1.33

1.11–1.61

1.42

1.18–1.71

1.33

1.1–1.6

1.38

1.15–1.66

Nursing staff

1.35

1.00–1.83

1.09

0.84–1.43

1.06

0.81–1.39

1.09

0.83–1.43

1.08

0.82–1.41

PTE

4.59

3.86–5.45

4.81

4.06–5.71

4.57

3.85–5.43

4.61

3.88–5.47

log(r + 1)*

1.26

1.21–1.32

1.21

1.02–1.43

1.54

1.42–1.68

z(time)

2.65

2.31–3.03

2.58

2.25–2.95

1.62

1.06–2.49

0.40

0.25–0.64

z(time)2

0.19

0.14–0.26

0.20

0.14–0.27

0.30

0.18–0.49

z(time)4

2.81

2.36–3.34

2.61

2.19–3.10

2.10

1.63–2.71

z(time)5

0.67

0.63–0.71

0.70

0.66–0.74

0.77

0.7–0.85

log(r + 1) × z(time)

1.10

1.03–1.18

Random effect

          

σB

17.39

10.72

10.28

10.81

10.42

  1. OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval; “–” = variable not in the model; Nobs = number of obser-vations, or person-waves, modeled; Nper = number of persons modeled); z(time) = Questionnaire answering time-variable standardized (z-score transformed) to mean 0 and variance 1; z(time)k = kth polynomial of the time variable; σB = Random-effect variance for between-employee differences in risk of psychological distress; A × B = interaction effect for A-by-B; "Direct care" = delivering direct care to COVID-19 patients
  2. * Logarithm of weekly COVID-19 incidence, plus one case to prevent minus infinite log-values