Table 1 Employee and workplace characteristics and baseline scores of outcome variables in the intervention and the control group in the study sample

Employee characteristic

423

241

 Age

42.9

10.4

44.9

9.8

2.43 (0.02)

 Women

87.0

368

90.0

217

1.36 (0.24)

 Job group

2.05 (0.56)

  - Pedagogical leaders

6.6

28

6.2

15

  - Nursery nurses

57.2

242

52.7

127

  - Nursery nurse assistants

28.4

120

30.7

74

  - Other job groups

7.8

33

10.4

25

Workplace characteristics

41

30

 Size

23.4

8.4

21.8

9.6

-2.25 (0.02)

 Workplace type

2.26 (0.32)

  - Integrated

77.1

326

79.7

192

  - Day care

18.7

79

18.3

44

  - Kindergarden

4.3

18

2.1

5

Baseline scores of outcome variables

 Job satisfaction

3.19

0.57

409

3.02

0.70

228

-3.11 (0.002)

 Exhaustion

2.72

1.13

411

3.01

1.26

234

3.06 (0.002)

 Sleep disturbances

2.04

1.28

409

2.34

1.40

226

2.68 (0.008)