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Table 4 Explaining thoughts of leaving the profession among hospital employees – results of stepwise multiple linear regression analyses (aggregated and stratified)

From: Explaining burnout and the intention to leave the profession among health professionals – a cross-sectional study in a hospital setting in Switzerland

Dependent or outcome variable:

Thinking of leaving the profession (ordinal scale from 1 ‘never’ to 5 ‘daily’)

Caregivers & nurses (incl. midwives)

Physicians

All health professionals

Total hospital employees

N = 882

N = 235

N = 1441

N = 1840

Beta coeff. (β)

Beta coeff. (β)

Beta coeff. (β)

Beta coeff. (β)

Step 1

Step 2

Step 1

Step 2

Step 1

Step 2

Step 1

Step 2

Independent or exposure variables:

 Temporal workload (number of overtime hours per week 0–10+)

n.s.

−.09*

n.s.

n.s.

n.s.

−.10***

n.s.

−.11***

 Physical workload (sum score 0–20)

.12***

n.s.

.15*

n.s.

.12***

n.s.

.11***

n.s.

 Emotional stress (sum score 0–20)

.21***

n.s.

n.s.

n.s.

.17***

n.s.

.18***

n.s.

 Mental stress (sum score 0–15)

.18***

.08*

.29***

.19*

.21***

.10***

.21***

.09***

Intervening or mediating variables:

 Effort-reward imbalance (ERI ratio)

–

.31***

–

.36***

–

.34***

–

.34***

 Work-life imbalance (sum score 0–20)

–

.25***

–

n.s.

–

.20***

–

.19***

Control variables:

 Sex (male)

n.s.

n.s.

n.s.

n.s.

n.s.

n.s.

n.s.

n.s.

 Age (< 25, 25–34, 35–44, 45–54, 55+)

−.13***

−.09**

n.s.

n.s.

−.10***

−.11***

−.11***

−.11***

 Educational level (low, medium, high, very high)

–

–

–

–

n.s.

n.s.

−.06*

−.06*

Adjusted R square

.166

.287

.110

.221

.143

.262

.140

.251

No. cases in model

776

715

204

187

1260

1168

1573

1450

  1. *p ≤ .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001; n.s. = not significant (p > .05)
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