The impact of occupational hazards and traumatic events among Belgian emergency physicians

Table 3 Inter-correlations (Pearson correlation coefficients) for age, seniority, the occurrence of physical hazards, violence, situations that can cause burnout, social support supervisor and social support colleagues and outcome variables

		α	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
1.	Age	-	-
2.	Seniority	-	,96 ^**	-
3.	Occurrence Physical Hazards	-	-,11	-,11	-
4.	Occurrence Violence	-	,16 ^*	,16 ^*	,28 ^**	-
5.	Occurrence Burnout	-	,10	,11	,19 ^*	,25 ^**	-
6.	Supervisor support	.91	-,09	-,09	-,01	-,09	-,31 ^**	-
7.	Colleagues support	.87	-,02	-,01	,08	-,16 ^*	-,33 ^**	,62 ^**	-
8.	IES Total (PTSR)	.94	,06	,02	,07	,27 ^**	,42 ^**	-,23 ^**	-,31 ^**	-
9.	Psychological distress (BSI)	.93	-,18 ^*	-,19 ^*	,14	,25 ^**	,47 ^**	-,21 ^**	-,31 ^**	,59 ^**	-
10.	Somatization (PHQ 15)	.86	-,11	-,12	,09	,24 ^**	,47 ^**	-,13	-,38 ^**	,53 ^**	,69 ^**	-
11.	Subjective Fatigue (CIS-20R)	.93	-,09	-,11	,24 ^**	,43 ^**	,46 ^**	-,16 ^*	-,32 ^**	,38 ^**	,64 ^**	,69 ^**	-
12.	Job satisfaction (LQWQ-MD)	.88	,00	-,03	-,01	-,20 ^*	-,50 ^**	,46 ^**	,56 ^**	-,26 ^**	-,38 ^**	-,39 ^**	-,53 ^**	1
		M	44,3	15,3	0,3	0,5	0.2	11.0	11.7	22.9	19.0	20.9	4.5	5.88
		D	9,2	9,4	0,5	0,5	0.4	3.2	2.5	9.2	8,2	5.0	1.95	2.2

Abbreviations: α Cronbach’s Alpha, Correlation significant *p ≤ .05. ** p ≤ .01 level (2-tailed), LQWQ-MD Leiden Quality of Work Questionnaire for Emergency Physicians, IES impact of event scale, CIS-20R Checklist Individual Strength, PHQ 15 Somatization PHQ15 Checklist, PTSR Posttraumatic stress reaction, BSI Brief Symptom Inventory, the data in bold have significant correlation

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