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Table 3 Mental wellbeing by subgroups

From: The workplace culture, mental health and wellbeing of early- and mid-career health academics: a cross-sectional analysis

 

Moderate or high level of burnouta

Clinically relevant depressive symptomsb

Expressed suicidal ideation or self-harmc

Clinically relevant symptoms of anxietyd

Prevalence ratio; 95% confidence interval; P

Prevalence; 95% confidence interval; P

Prevalence; 95% confidence interval; P

Prevalence; 95% confidence interval; P

Overtime > 12 h per week

1.52; 1.15, 2.01; p = .004

1.81; 1.20, 2.72; p = .004

2.81; 1.52, 5.18; p = .001

1.90; 1.17, 3.09; p = .010

Exposed to racism

1.56; 1.21, 2.02; p = .001

1.74; 1.16, 2.59; p = .007

1.28; 0.63, 2.58; p = .496

1.81; 1.12, 2.91; p = .016

Exposed to sexism or sexual harassment

1.49; 1.14, 1.94; p = .003

1.61; 1.06, 2.45; p = .027

1.13; 0.60, 2.13; p = .700

1.53; 0.93, 2.51; p = .091

Exposed to bullying

1.50; 117, 1.93; p = .001

1.70; 1.14, 2.54; p = .010

2.17; 1.14, 4.13; p = .018

1.61; 1.00, 2.61; p = .050

  1. aBurnout was measured using The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory – 7-item Work Related Burnout subscale to assess ‘moderate burnout’ (scores of 50 to 74) and ‘high/severe burnout’ (scores of 75–100)
  2. bClinically significant depressive symptoms defined as a PHQ-9 score ≥ 10
  3. cVariable based on PHQ-9 item (“thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself in some way”)
  4. dClinically significant anxiety defined as a GAD-7 score ≥ 10