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Table 2 Description of study population (n = 755)

From: Employees’ preferences on organisational aspects of psychotherapeutic consultation at work by occupational area, company size, requirement levels and supervisor function – a cross-sectional study in Germany

Characteristics

mean (SD)

Age (years)

35.37 (± 12.2)

 

n (%)

Gender

 Female

627 (83)

 Male

103 (14)

 divers

25 (3)

Health insurance

 Statutory (vs. private)

716 (95)

Educationa

 

 Lower secondary education

130 (17)

 Upper secondary education

280 (37)

 Tertiary education

345 (46)

Health specific characteristics

 Incapacity to work due to mental diagnosis

52 (7)

 Incapacity to work due to another illness

14 (2)

 Current mental illness (n = 728)

350 (48)

 Thereof currently in treatment

231 (67)

 Mental illness in the past (n = 716)

434 (60)

 Thereof in treatment in the past (n = 432)

395 (91)

 WHO-5 ≤ 50 (n = 729)

510 (70)

Work specific characteristics

 Work Full Time (≥ 35 h/week vs. < 35 h/week)

495 (66)

Company size (employees)

 1–9

87 (11)

 10–49

157 (21)

 50–249

161 (21)

 250–999

134 (18)

 1000

216 (29)

Occupational areas

 Production of raw materials and goods and manufacturing

23 (3)

 Construction, architecture, surveying and technical building services

20 (3)

 Natural sciences, geography and informatics

59 (8)

 Traffic, logistics, safety and security

27 (3)

 Commercial services, trading, sales, the hotel business and tourism

111 (15)

 Business organisation, accounting, law and administration

121 (16)

 Health care, the social sector, teaching and education

292 (39)

 Philology, literature, humanities, social sciences, economics, media, art, culture and design

83 (11)

 Other

19 (2)

Requirement levels

 Unskilled or semi-skilled activities

95 (13)

 Specialist activities

246 (33)

 Complex specialist activities

239 (32)

 Highly complex activities

175 (23)

Employed (vs. self-employed)

731 (97)

Without supervisor function (vs. with supervisor function)

603 (80)

Remote work

255 (34)

Shift work

145 (19)

  1. aCategorised by ISCED 2011 – International Standard Classification of Education; n number, SD standard deviation; in case of missing data, the number of participants who answered the question are given