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Table 5 Association of workplace social capital and self-rated health and psychological distress (GHQ-12)

From: Investigation into the metric properties of the workplace social capital questionnaire and its association with self-rated health and psychological distress amongst Greek-Cypriot registered nurses: cross-sectional descriptive study

 

Self-rated health - VAS 0–100 (N = 280)

Psychological distress – GHQ-12 ≥ 4 (N = 283)

Unadjusted Mean

Adjusted Mean†

Mean Difference (95% CI)

Unadjusted OR (95% CI)

Adjusted OR‡ (95% CI)

WSC – Overall scale

 Lowest (< 3.5)

73.9

75.3

−8.4 (−14.0, −2.8)

2.16 (1.05, 4.42)

1.93 (0.88, 4.25)

 Middle (3.5–4.0)

77.0

78.1

−5.6 (−10.9, −0.2)

1.03 (0.49, 2.12)

1.04 (0.47, 2.32)

 Highest (> 4.0)

82.6

83.6

Ref

Ref

Ref

Per tertile increase (95% CI)

4.2 (1.5, 6.9), p < 0.01

4.1 (1.3, 6.8), p < 0.01

 

0.64 (0.45, 0.92)

0.68 (0.46, 1.01)

Per 1 SD increase (95% CI)

3.0 (1.0, 5.1), p < 0.01

3.2 (1.1, 5.3), p < 0.01

 

0.72 (0.55, 0.93)

0.76 (0.57, 1.01)

Bonding SC

 Lowest (< 3.5)

74.6

75.4

−8.0 (−13.8, −2.1)

2.94 (1.26, 6.89)

2.71 (1.08, 6.79)

 Middle (3.5–4.0)

76.9

77.6

−5.7 (−11.3, −0.0)

2.39 (1.03, 5.58)

2.69 (1.07, 6.77)

 Highest (> 4.0)

82.6

83.3

Ref

Ref

Ref

Per category increase (95% CI)

3.7 (0.9, 6.6), p = 0.01

3.7 (0.9, 6.6), p = 0.01

 

0.64 (0.44, 0.93)

0.69 (0.47, 1.03)

Per 1 SD increase (95% CI)

2.9 (0.9, 5.0), p < 0.01

2.8 (0.8, 4.9), p = 0.01

 

0.78 (0.60, 1.00)

0.83 (0.63, 1.10)

Bridging SC

 Lowest (< 3.5)

76.2

76.9

−2.1 (−9.2, 5.0)

0.97 (0.41, 2.29)

0.87 (0.34, 2.24)

 Middle (3.5–4.0)

78.3

79.5

0.5 (−6.9, 7.9)

0.71 (0.29, 1.78)

0.64 (0.23, 1.77)

 Highest (> 4.0)

78.2

79.0

Ref

Ref

Ref

Per category increase (95% CI)

1.4 (−1.7, 4.5), p = 0.39

1.6 (−1.5, 4.7), p = 0.31

 

0.91 (0.62, 1.34)

0.94 (0.62, 1.43)

Per 1 SD increase (95% CI)

1.4 (−0.7, 3.5), p = 0.20

1.6 (−0.5, 3.8), p = 0.13

 

0.77 (0.60, 1.00)

0.82 (0.62,1.08)

Linking SC

 Lowest (< 3.5)

74.0

75.0

−9.8 (−15.1, −4.6)

2.07 (1.05, 4.11)

1.90 (0.89, 4.07)

 Middle (3.5–4.0)

76.3

77.1

−7.7 (−13.2, −2.2)

0.97 (0.46, 2.04)

1.05 (0.56, 2.43)

 Highest (> 4.0)

84.2

84.8

Ref

Ref

Ref

Per category increase (95% CI)

4.8 (2.3, 7.4), p < 0.01

4.6 (2.0, 7.2), p < 0.01

 

0.65 (0.56, 0.92)

0.70 (0.48, 1.01)

Per SD increase (95% CI)

2.9 (0.8, 5.0), p < 0.01

3.1 (0.9, 5.2), p < 0.01

 

0.73 (0.56, 0.95)

0.75 (0.56, 1.00)

  1. †‡Adjusted for age, gender, income, marital status, number of children, length of employment, change of address in last ten years, house and type of tenure. †Increasing age, female gender and lower income were statistically significantly associated with lower self-rated health in multivariable models. ‡Female gender, lower income and not owner occupants had statistically significantly higher odds of GHQ-12 ≥ 4 in multivariable models
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