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Table 1 Perception of the COVID-19 crisis for all participants and by type of hospital unit

From: Personal and professional quality of life among French health care workers during the first COVID-19 wave: a cross-sectional study

 

Overall

(n = 794)

By type of unit

 

COVID unit

(n = 380)

Non COVID unit

(n = 414)

pa

Involvement in managing the crisisb (mean)

6.8

7.6

6.2

< 0.0001

Sense of self-worthb (mean)

5.4

5.9

4.9

< 0.0001

Increased fatigueb (mean)

6.2

6.4

6.0

0.0149

General hardshipb (mean)

- personal standpoint

5.0

4.9

5.1

0.0934

- professional standpoint

4.7

4.8

4.6

0.4226

Satisfactory knowledge of COVID-19 risk managementb (mean)

6.8

7.1

6.6

0.0009

Being comfortable with COVID-19 risk managementb (mean)

6.4

6.8

6.1

< 0.0001

Feeling protected in the management of COVID-19 riskb (mean)

6.5

6.8

6.2

< 0.0001

Receipt of direct encouragements (percentage)

63.4%

71.8%

55.6%

< 0.0001

Experience of stigmatisation (percentage)

19.3%

24.0%

15.0%

< 0.0001

  1. aFrom Pearson’s chi-square test or Student’s t-test as appropriate
  2. bInteger scale from 0 to 10, 0 being the worst score except for ‘increased fatigue’ and ‘general hardship’