Social Psychiatry in the Waiting Room: What a Physician Can Learn about Occupational Stress from Workers Waiting to Be Examined

Table 2

Score of the stress-related variables (mean ± standard deviation) and prevalence of workers in the high-risk category.

	A-radiologists		B-infectious diseases hospital		C-general hospital		D-insurance		E-mature		F-police		𝑃
	Mean	s.d.	Mean	s.d.	Mean	s.d.	Mean	s.d.	Mean	s.d.	Mean	s.d.
Demand; (range 5–20)	17.0	1.6	13.7	2.3	13.2	3.0	11.8	2.8	13.0	3.0	12.6	2.7	<0.001^b
Control; (range 6–24)	19.8	2.5	19.6	2.5	16.6	3.0	17.6	3.1	16.4	4.4	16.6	4.1	<0.001^b
Support; (range 6–24)	18.3	3.8	20.3	3.4	19.7	3.6	19.1	2.9	18.2	4.3	19.0	3.1	<0.001^b
D/C ratio	1.05	0.18	0.86	0.18	1.00	0.30	0.84	0.28	1.05	0.48	0.99	0.40	<0.001^b
Job strain, N (%)	90 (28.7)		28 (12.9)		45 (30.4)		4 (7.8)		36 (19.9)		48 (16.6)		<0.001^a
Isostrain, N (%)	24 (7.6)		13 (6.0)		21 (14.9)		2 (3.9)		12 (6.9)		20 (6.9)		<0.05^a
Effort; (range 6–30)	17.9	5.6	12.3	3.8	14.6	5.0	11.3	3.5	13.8	4.8	11.8	3.8	<0.001^b
Reward; (range 11–55)	42.1	8.6	45.3	8.1	45.5	9.3	44.9	8.3	39.0	8.5	45.6	7.4	<0.001^b
Over-commitment; (range 6–24)	9.8	4.7	7.4	3.0	8.2	3.2	7.1	2.0	n.e.	n.e.	6.6	1.8	<0.001^b
ERI	0.87	0.50	0.55	0.38	0.69	0.46	0.48	0.18	0.71	0.36	0.52	0.29	<0.001^b
ERI, N (%)	148 (47.1)		45 (20.7)		41 (35.0)		4 (7.8)		57 (42.9)		66 (22.8)		<0.001^a
ERI + O, N (%)	45 (14.3)		23 (10.6)		20 (18.0)		4 (7.8)		n.e.		47 (16.2)		n.s.^a

n.e.: not evaluated; n.s.: not significant.
^aPearson’s chi square.
^bGLM adjusted for age and gender.