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

Somville, Francis J.; De Gucht, Véronique; Maes, Stan

doi:10.1186/s13049-016-0249-9

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

Table 4 Summary of hierarchical regression analysis: personal characteristics (block 1), exposure to traumatic events (block 2), occurrence (block 3) and social support (block 4) as predictors of post-traumatic stress distress, psychological distress, perceived fatigue, somatic complaints, job satisfaction

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

	IES total			Psychological distress			Perceived fatigue			Somatic complaints			Job Satisfaction
	ΔR ²	β	Sign	ΔR ²	β	Sign	ΔR ²	β	Sign	ΔR ²	β	Sign	ΔR2	β	Sign
Block 1: demographics	0.00			0.04			0.03			0.03			0.01
Age		,05	n.s		-,17	*		-,11	n.s		-,17	*		-,02	n.s
Workschedule		,02	n.s		,08	n.s		,13	n.s		,05	n.s		-,11	n.s
Block 2: Traumatic events	0.12			0.06			0.02			0.02			0.01
Age		,09	n.s		-,14	n.s		-,10	n.s		-,15	0.07		-,03	n.s
Workschedule		,01	n.s		,07	n.s		,12	n.s		,04	n.s		-,10	n.s
Traumatic events (work)		,33	*******		,25	***		,14	n.s		,15	0.06		,01	n.s
Life events (personal life)		-,12	n.s		-,05	n.s		,06	n.s		-,02	n.s		,11	n.s
Block 3: occurrence	0.15			0.23			0.28			0.23			0.28
Age		,02	n.s		-,22	***		-,19	**		-,24	***		,07	n.s
Workschedule		,03	n.s		,01	n.s		,15	*		,07	n.s		-,14	*
Traumatic events (work)		,23	*******		,14	0.06		,01	n.s		,04	n.s		,09	n.s
Life events (personal life)		-,12	n.s		-,05	n.s		,05	n.s		-,02	n.s		,11	n.s
Occurrence physical total		-,07	n.s		-,03	n.s		,05	n.s		-,10	n.s		,15	*
Occurrence violence		,17	*		,17	*		,29	***		,18	*		-,17	*
Occurrence situations that can cause burnout		,35	*******		,44	***		,38	***		,44	***		-,50	***
Block 4: social support	0.02			0.02			0.03			0.07			0.16
Age		,03	n.s		-,21	***		-,17	*		-,21	***		,06	n.s
Workschedule		,02	n.s		,09	n.s		,14	*		,06	n.s		-,11	0.09
Traumatic events (work)		,23	*******		,14	*		,01	n.s		,05	n.s		,06	n.s
Life events (personal life)		-,12	n.s		-,05	n.s		,04	n.s		-,03	n.s		,11	n.s
Occurrence physical total		-,04	n.s		-,00	n.s		,10	n.s		-,03	n.s		,08	n.s
Occurrence violence		,15	0.07		,15	*		,27	***		,15	*		-,11	0.09
Occurrence situations that can cause burnout		,30	*******		,39	***		,34	***		,38	***		-,34	***
Social support supervisor		,01	n.s		,03	n.s		,13	n.s		,22	**		,14	n.s
Social support colleagues		-,17	0.07		-,17	0.07		-,23	**		-,36	***		,33	***
	R ² model	0.29		R ² model	0.35		R ² model	0.36		R ² model	0.35		R2 model	0.46
	Adj R ² model	0.25		Adj R ² model	0.31		Adj R ² model	0.33		Adj R ² model	0.31		Adj R2 model	0.43

Abbreviations: ΔR ² change in R² values from one model to another, R ² model R² values in one model, Adj R ² model adjusted R² values in one model, β beta resulting standardized regression coefficients, Sign significant, n.s not significant, * Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level, ** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level,*** Correlation is significant at the 0.001 level, IES total = post-traumatic stress distress, the bold data are significant

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