General hospital staff worries, perceived sufficiency of information and associated psychological distress during the A/H1N1 influenza pandemic

Table 5 Variables associated with the hospital staffs degree of worry about A/H1N1 influenza pandemic (N = 469).

Independent Variables	Univariate Analyses	Multiple Regression Analysis ⁽¹⁾
	p-values	beta ⁽²⁾	p-values
Demographics
Sex	0.201 ⁽³⁾	0.053	0.213
Age	0.006 ⁽⁴⁾	0.024	0.620
Educational Level	< 0.0005 ⁽⁴⁾	0.040	0.396
Children (No = 0, Yes = 1)	0.003 ⁽³⁾	0.047	0.338
Profession
Nurse	0.129 ⁽³⁾	-	-
Medical	< 0.0005 ⁽³⁾	-0.070	0.140
Allied	0.547 ⁽³⁾	-	-
Auxiliary	< 0.0005 ⁽³⁾	0.099	0.023
Perceived sufficiency of information about:
A/H1N1 influenza symptoms	0.006 ⁽⁴⁾	-0.086	0.175
A/H1N1 influenza prognosis	< 0.0005 ⁽⁴⁾	-0.161	0.008
A/H1N1 influenza treatment	< 0.0005 ⁽⁴⁾	-0.005	0.993
A/H1N1 influenza infection route	0.017 ⁽⁴⁾	-0.019	0.781
A/H1N1 influenza preventive measures	0.004 ⁽⁴⁾	-0.002	0.995
Beliefs about a possible infection
It would have major health consequences	< 0.0005 ⁽⁴⁾	0.368	< 0.0005
It would be difficult to treat	< 0.0005 ⁽⁴⁾	0.154	0.003
Department's efficacy
They felt the department had provided clear information about the A/H1N1 influenza	0.510 ⁽⁴⁾	-	-
They felt their department was well prepared for the A/H1N1 influenza pandemic	0.637 ⁽⁴⁾	-	-
Work satisfaction	0.298 ⁽⁴⁾	-	-

(1): Multiple regression analysis with dependent variable the degree of worry about the swine flu pandemic and independent variables the major demographic variables and the statistically significant variables of the univariate comparisons; Cumulative R² Adjusted= 0.270; F_[13,455] = 14.3, p < 0.0005 (2): Standardized beta coefficients; (3): two-tailed t-test; (4): Pearson correlation; All the VIFs for individual variables were less than 2 and all tolerances were close to 1.

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