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Table 1 Characteristics and PTSD (N = 168)

From: Factors associated with post-traumatic stress disorder in nurses after directly caring for COVID-19 patients: a cross-sectional study

 

n (%) or Mean ± SD

Intrapersonal and Interpersonal characteristics

 

 Age (years)

31.47 ± 9.25

  Below the median (< 28)

80 (47.6)

  Above the median (≥ 28)

88 (52.4)

 Work experience (years)

8.91 ± 9.53

  Below the median (< 4)

83 (49.4)

  Above the median (≥ 4)

85 (50.6)

 Gender

 

  Male

6 (3.6)

  Female

162 (96.4)

 Marital status

 

  Unmarried

118 (70.2)

  Married

50 (29.8)

 Cohabitation status

 

  Living alone

24 (14.3)

  Living with family

144 (85.7)

 Education level

 

  Associate’s degree or lower

25 (14.9)

  Bachelor’s degree or higher

143 (85.1)

Organizational characteristic

 

 Nursing work environments

2.47 ± 0.40

  Nurse participation in hospital affairs

2.33 ± 0.47

  Nursing foundations for quality of care

2.68 ± 0.41

  Nurse managers’ ability, leadership, and support of nurses

2.69 ± 0.54

  Staffing and resource adequacy

2.24 ± 0.62

  Collegial nurse-physician relations

2.27 ± 0.61

COVID-19-related characteristic

 

 Experience of quarantine

 

  No

123 (73.2)

  Yes

45 (26.8)

 Training/orientation of infection control

 

  No

82 (48.8)

  Yes

86 (51.2)

 Level of nurse staffing

 

  Appropriate

70 (41.7)

  Inappropriate

98 (58.3)

 Availability of PPE

 

  Appropriate

78 (46.4)

  Inappropriate

90 (53.6)

 Convenience of EHR

 

  Convenience

110 (65.5)

  Inconvenience

58 (34.5)

 Experience of witnessing COVID-19 patient death

 

  No

124 (73.8)

  Yes

44 (26.2)

 Length of working period in the COVID-19 isolation ward

26.61 ± 18.31

PTSD

15.77 ± 16.57

 ≤ 33

137 (81.5)

 > 33

31 (18.5)

  1. Note: COVID-19 = Coronavirus disease 2019; EHR = Electronic health records; PPE = Personal protective equipment; PTSD = Post-traumatic stress disorder; SD = Standard deviation