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Table 2 Prevalence (%) of high psychological distress 1 by age and sex reported in surveys of Tasmanian and Australian employees

From: Prevalence and correlates of psychological distress in a large and diverse public sector workforce: baseline results from Partnering Healthy@Work

 

Men%(N2)

Women%(N)

Age group (years)

PH@W 20103

H@W 20094

TPHS 20095

NSMHWB 20076

PH@W 2010

H@W 2009

TPHS 2009

NSMHWB 2007

16 - 24

18.7 (16)

23.7 (131)

7.1 (84)

6.2 (512)

16.7 (64)

23.7 (329)

11.1 (80)

11.7 (564)

25 - 34

7.4 (103)

17.3 (394)

6.7 (177)

9.1 (467)

16.4 (337)

22.7 (1001)

9.8 (256)

14.8 (544)

35 - 44

11.8 (222)

17.0 (695)

7.4 (323)

6.5 (687)

13.2 (551)

18.1 (1329)

11.4 (471)

10.7 (674)

45 - 54

11.5 (373)

15.6 (801)

7.8 (392)

8.8 (483)

10.3 (956)

16.1 (1871)

10.1 (586)

10.8 (555)

55 - 64

7.1 (219)

12.0 (417)

7.5 (278)

4.2 (396)

6.7 (477)

14.8 (856)

10.1 (353)

7.7 (379)

65+

0.0 (15)

20.0 (25)

2.5 (80)

3.4 (153)

3.8 (27)

11.4 (35)

9.4 (52)

7.6 (85)

Total

10.2 (948)

16.1 (2463)

7.1 (1334)

6.8 (2698)

11.6 (2412)

18.0 (5421)

10.4 (1798)

11.2 (2801)

p 7

ref

<0.001

0.013

0.002

ref

<0.001

0.217

0.651

  1. 1Prevalence was measured using the K10 and dichotomized as ‘high’ versus ‘low’ distress with K10 scores ≥22 being rated as ‘high’.
  2. 2N, total number of respondents by category.
  3. 3Partnering Healthy@Work 2010, researcher-initiated survey of Tasmanian State Service employees (weighted).
  4. 4Healthy@Work survey 2009, employer-initiated survey of Tasmanian State Service employees (unweighted).
  5. 5Tasmanian Population Health Survey 2009, population normative data of Tasmanian workers (weighted).
  6. 6National Survey of Mental Health and Well-Being 2007, population normative data of Australian workers (weighted).
  7. 7p-value for the differences between total prevalence of psychological distress in the survey, relative to PH@W 2010.
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BMC Public Health

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