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Table 2 Independent associates of depression, anxiety, and stress: multivariable ordinal regression

From: Emotional distress symptoms and their determinants: screening of non-clinical hospital staff in an Egyptian University hospital

 

Depression

Anxiety

Stress

Adjusted OR

(95% CI) a

P-Value

Adjusted OR

(95% CI) a

P-Value

Adjusted OR

(95% CI) a

P-Value

Model 1

Age

0.98 (0.96-0.99)

0.007

0.99 (0.97-1.001)

0.069

0.97 (0.95-0.99)

< 0.001

Gender

 Men

Ref.

 

Ref.

 

Ref.

 

 Women

1.27 (0.88-1.83)

0.208

1.95 (1.36-2.81)

< 0.001

1.01 (0.69-1.49)

0.931

Job categories

 Unskilled workers

1.13 (0.29-4.41)

0.86

1.06 (0.31-3.65)

0.923

2.95 (0.75-11.59)

0.121

 Technicians

2.69 (0.91-7.97)

0.075

1.32 (0.51-3.44)

0.57

1.91 (0.64-5.66)

0.245

 Administrative

2.37 (0.82-6.81)

0.110

1.13 (0.46-2.80)

0.793

1.69 (0.60-4.80)

0.323

 Engineers/IT professionals

Ref.

 

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Income

 In debt

5.82 (2.35-14.43)

< 0.001

3.84 (1.66-8.91)

0.002

3.01 (1.20-7.55)

0.019

 Just meet routine expenses

2.43 (1.04-5.69)

0.041

2.26 (1.03-4.97)

0.043

1.64 (0.69-3.91)

0.265

 Meet routine and emergency expenses

1.51 (0.615-3.73)

0.367

1.62 (0.70-3.76)

0.257

1.22 (0.48-3.10)

0.681

 Able to save/invest money

Ref.

 

Ref.

 

Ref.

 

Job Stress Level

 Relatively Calm

Ref.

 

Ref.

 

Ref.

 

 Fairly Low

1.70 (0.87-3.32)

0.124

1.60 (0.86-2.98)

0.135

1.36 (0.62-2.98)

0.446

 Moderate

4.72 (2.44-9.14)

< 0.001

2.95 (1.62-5.37)

< 0.001

4.54 (2.17-9.48)

< 0.001

 Severe

13.69 (6.77-27.70)

< 0.001

6.63 (3.47-12.65)

< 0.001

11.96 (5.53-25.89)

< 0.001

 Potentially Dangerous

32.77 (13.43-79.98)

< 0.001

10.24 (4.44-23.59)

< 0.001

20.83 (8.25-52.62)

< 0.001

Job Stressors (Model 2)

 Unpleasant/unsafe work conditions

1.74 (1.38-2.19)

< 0.001

1.56 (1.26-1.93)

< 0.001

1.53 (1.21-1.94)

< 0.001

 Job negatively affects physical/emotional wellbeing

0.95 (0.79-1.15)

0.600

1.11 (0.93-1.33)

0.238

1.04 (0.85-1.27)

0.728

 Having much work/unreasonable deadlines

1.04 (0.88-1.24)

0.625

1.05 (0.89-1.24)

0.537

1.13 (0.94-1.35)

0.197

 Difficult to express opinions/feelings to superiors

1.32 (1.12-1.55)

0.001

1.12 (0.96-1.30)

0.152

1.33 (1.12-1.58)

0.001

 Job pressures interfere with family/personal life

1.64 (1.38-1.95)

< 0.001

1.38 (1.17-1.63)

< 0.001

1.62 (1.34-1.96)

< 0.001

bHaving adequate control/input over work duties

0.99 (0.84-1.17)

0.889

1.09 (0.93-1.28)

0.288

0.99 (0.83-1.18)

0.917

bReceive appropriate recognition/rewards

0.93 (0.81-1.07)

0.291

0.88 (0.77-1.01)

0.071

0.91 (0.78-1.05)

0.193

bUtilize skills/talents to full extent at work

1.23 (1.05-1.44)

0.010

0.98 (0.84-1.14)

0.779

1.04 (0.88-1.23)

0.619

  1. IT Information Technology, OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval
  2. aCalculated using multivariable ordinal regression
  3. bReverse scoring was used