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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of health care workers by group and role

From: Perceptions of personal health risks by medical and non-medical workers in a university medical center: a survey study

 

Medical group

  

Category

Physicians

(n= 369)

Nurses

(n= 608)

Paramedics

(n= 555)

Total Medical group

(n= 1532)

Total Non- medical group

(n= 963)

Age (mean, with standard deviation in parentheses)

39.06

(11.01)

42.18a**

(10.47)

42.67a**

(10.56)

41.61

(10.72)

44.25b**

(10.03)

Gender (%)

     

   Male

53.39

19.57

26.85

30.35

36.66

   Female

46.61

80.43c**

73.15c**

69.65c**

63.34c**

Family status (%)

     

   Live alone

23.58

18.09

18.20

19.45

18.38

   Live with a partner only

35.23

31.58

31.53

32.44

33.96

   Live with children only

2.71

2.80

4.14

3.26

5.19

   Live with a partner and children

38.48

47.53

46.13

44.84

42.47

Type of work contract

(%)

     

Full-time

(40 hrs/week)

75.61d**

31.74

41.98

46.02

50.88

Part-time

(mean = 26.5 hrs/week; SD = 7.5 hrs/week)

24.39

68.26e**

58.02e**

53.98e*

49.12

  1. aSignificantly older than physicians. bSignificantly older than medical group. cSignificantly outnumbered male counterparts. dSignificantly outnumbered part-timers. eSignificantly outnumbered full-timers. **p < .001. *p < .01.
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