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Table 3 Comparison of stress-related questions and IES-R in the first (2020) and second (2022) assessment points

From: The sustained psychological impact of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on hospital workers 2 years after the outbreak: a repeated cross-sectional study in Kobe

 

First Assessment

Second Assessment

Welch’s two-sample t-test

 

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

df

t

p

F1 (anxiety about infection)

 

10.07

3.03

9.08

3.06

1536.51

6.58

< 0.001

F2 (exhaustion)

 

4.20

2.51

5.11

2.36

1590.31

-7.59

< 0.001

F3 (workload)

 

2.38

1.52

3.25

1.55

1532.43

-11.60

< 0.001

F4 (feeling of being protected)

 

2.05

1.21

2.44

1.16

1578.14

-6.64

< 0.001

IES-R

 

12.71

13.35

13.93

15.45

1416.13

-1.69

0.91

  1. Abbreviations: df, degree of freedom; IES-R, Impact of Event Scale-Revised; SD, standard deviation