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Table 3 Determinants of change in quality of life during the COVID-19 first wave

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

 

Differences (∆) in QoLa between the periods before and during the first wave

Personal QoL

Professional QoL

Overall QoL

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Sex

 Male (n = 159)

−1.5

0.0916

0.2352

−0.2

0.2270

0.9628

−0.8

0.0491

0.3686

 Female (n = 635)

−1.8

−0.4

−1.1

Age category (years)

 < 30 (n = 113)

−2.2

0.0026

0.0037

−0.4

0.2015

0.3591

−1.3

0.0038

0.0163

 [30–35) (n = 142)

−1.7

−0.4

−1.1

 [35–40) (n = 118)

−1.7

−0.2

− 0.9

 [40–45) (n = 110)

−2.1

−0.4

−1.3

 [45–50) (n = 110)

−1.6

−0.1

−0.9

 [50–55) (n = 91)

−1.5

−0.6

−1.1

 ≥ 55 (n = 109)

−1.1

−0.2

− 0.7

Occupation

 Physician (n = 188)

−1.4

0.1927

0.5270

+ 0.1

0.0002

0.0011

−0.7

0.0010

0.0390

 Nurse manager (n = 57)

−2.0

−0.3

−1.1

 Nurse (n = 243)

−1.8

−0.6

−1.2

 Nurse assistant (n = 116)

−1.8

−0.3

−1.0

 Other staff (n = 190)

−1.8

−0.5

−1.2

Type of unit

 COVID (n = 380)

−1.8

0.1100

0.1505

−0.3

0.2265

0.0835

−1.1

0.5840

0.8872

 Non COVID (n = 414)

−1.6

−0.4

−1.0

Type of assignment

 Usual (n = 574)

−1.7

0.8520

0.2709

−0.3

0.3006

0.4542

−1.0

0.6394

0.6634

 Reinforcement (n = 220)

−1.7

−0.4

−1.1

Night work

 Yes (n = 314)

−1.7

0.5938

0.9054

−0.4

0.8687

0.1314

−1.0

0.7551

0.4466

 No (n = 480)

−1.7

−0.3

−1.0

Receipt of encouragements

 Yes(n = 503)

−1.7

0.3696

0.1781

−0.2

0.0082

0.0422

−0.9

0.0302

0.0280

 No (n = 291)

−1.8

−0.5

−1.2

Experience of stigmatisation

 Yes (n = 153)

−1.9

0.3470

0.6154

−0.4

0.8655

0.8083

−1.1

0.3961

0.7991

 No (n = 641)

−1.7

−0.3

−1.0

  1. aQoL: Quality of life on 0–10 integer scale
  2. bFrom Student’s t-test or one-way ANOVA as appropriate
  3. cFrom multiple linear regression including all variables in the table and Wald’s test