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Table 3 Determinants of staff exposure to occupational health and safety at the workplace

From: Experiences of frontline nursing staff on workplace safety and occupational health hazards in two psychiatric hospitals in Ghana

	Dependent variables
	Exposure to OHH				Frequency of Exposure (Daily)
Independent variables	Coef.^b	95%	CI	p-value	Coef. ^b	95%	CI	p-value^a
Age	−0.16	−0.28	−0.03	0.012^a	−0.43	−1.24	0.39	0.301
Gender
Male	0.15	−0.00	0.30	0.052	−0.79	−1.80	0.22	0.124
Female	Ref			Ref	Ref			Ref
Profession
Professional nurse	−0.01	−0.26	0.23	0.912	−1.39	−3.05	0.27	0.099
Other	Ref			Ref	Ref			Ref
Work schedule
Day only	0.22	−0.29	0.73	0.400	4.49	1.05	7.93	0.011^a
Day and night	0.28	−0.26	0.82	0.308	4.83	1.20	8.45	0.010^a
Night only	Ref			Ref	Ref			Ref
Work experience	0.07	0.03	0.11	0.002^a	0.15	−0.13	0.43	0.285

Source: Field Data (2010)
Legend: APH Accra Psychiatric Hospital, OHH Occupational Health Hazard, OHS Occupational Health and Safety, n Sample size, CI Confidence Interval
^aMultivariate Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression analysis: p-values are statistically significant at 95% confidence level
^bOrdinary Least Squares (OLS) regression coefficients

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