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

Table 3

Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of job strain and effort/reward imbalance by occupational group (odds for insurance clerks = 1). Adjusted for age and sex.

	Job strain, OR (95% CI)	ERI, OR (95% CI)
Radiologists	6.38 (2.19–18.59)***	11.96 (4.14–34.53)***
Infectious diseases hospital	1.75 (0.59–5.26)	3.00 (1.02–8.77)*
General hospital	5.22 (1.76–15.43)**	6.35 (2.13–18.95)***
Police	2.41 (0.80–7.27)	3.04 (1.03–9.00)*
Mature workers	4.68 (1.52–14.40)**	11.89 (3.91–36.14)***
Insurance clerks	1	1

^∗𝑃<0.05;^∗∗𝑃<0.01;^∗∗∗𝑃<0.001.