Psychosocial support and resilience building among health workers in Sierra Leone: interrelations between coping skills, stress levels, and interpersonal relationships

Table 1 Coping skills, stress levels and relationships

	Average levels			Post-Test, Control difference		Post-Test, Pre-Test difference
Variable	Post-Test (Kono)	Control (Tonkolili)	Pre-Test (Kono)
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(1)-(2)	P-value	(1)-(3)	P-value
Overall coping strategies	3.23	2.79	2.63	0.447	0.000	0.601	0.000
Communication skills	3.42	3.05	2.26	0.367	0.000	1.156	0.000
Self-care skills	2.99	2.57	2.72	0.421	0.000	0.265	0.000
Social connectedness	3.32	2.80	2.81	0.523	0.000	0.510	0.000
Stress levels	2.40	2.48	NA	-0.086	0.034	NA	NA
Overall relationships ^*	3.47	3.35	2.69	0.121	0.025	0.786	0.000
With co-workers at facility	3.55	3.44	2.67	0.111	0.110	0.884	0.000
With patients	3.42	3.49	2.66	-0.072	0.320	0.764	0.000
N	129	157	129

^*Includes relationships with (1) co-workers at facility, (2) patients, (3) supervisors, (4) co-workers from other facilities, and (5) traditional birth attendants

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