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Table 4 Professionals' profiles by subgroups: gender, age, profession, work setting, and experience

From: Stress reactions after a patient suicide and their relations to the profile of mental health professionals

Subgroup

 
 

Men

Mean age (years)

Psychiatrists

Nurses

Work setting: institution

Mean length of professional experience experience (years)

A anticipators with support

31.7 %

43.1

17.5 %

52.4 %

92.1 %

17.7

B distant professionals

35.8 %

44.7

31.8 %

37.1 %

84.1 %

17.9

C no more contact with patient professionals

23.7 %

44.4

19.1 %

44.6 %

87.3 %

18.1

D concerned professionals

45.5 %

47.9

32.4 %

28.7 %

77.5 %

20.2

E unsupported professionals

25.5 %

46.0

11.8 %

64.7 %

92.2 %

19.7

Total

35.3 %

45.7

26.1 %

39.3 %

83.8 %

18.9

Differences between subgroups (p)

<0.001a

<0.001b

<0.001a

<0.001a

0.006a

0.120b

  1. Percentages and means indicate the value within each subgroup
  2. achi-square test
  3. bone-way analysis of variance