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Table 4 Factors that best classify health practitioners with good and poor quality of work life

From: Pattern and perception of wellbeing, quality of work life and quality of care of health professionals in Southwest Nigeria

Predictors

Regression Coefficients (B)

Odds ratio (β)

Wald

P-value

Age (years)

 20 – 29 (reference)

  

14.892

0.005*

 30 – 39

0.234

1.264

1.844

0.175

 40 – 49

0.141

1.151

0.515

0.473

 50 – 59

0.763

2.144

11.164

 < 0.001*

 60 – 69

1.826

6.211

2.251

0.134

Education level

 National Diploma (reference)

  

12.087

0.002*

 Bachelor

0.360

1.433

2.373

0.123

 Masters or Ph.D

0.813

2.255

9.491

0.002*

Designation

 Nurse (reference)

  

13.474

0.061*

 Medical practitioner

-0.108

0.898

0.426

0.514

 Pharmacist

0.379

1.461

2.815

0.093

 Physiotherapist

-0.350

0.705

1.947

0.163

 Radiographer

0.877

2.404

0.688

0.407

 Medical lab. scientist

0.210

1.233

0.706

0.401

 Occupational therapist

-1.968

0.140

3.189

0.074

 Others

0.839

2.315

1.385

0.239

Work volume per week

 < 20 (reference)

  

11.067

0.011*

 20–40

-0.771

0.463

6.232

0.013*

 41–60

-0.734

0.480

5.971

0.015*

 > 60

-1.049

0.350

10.647

0.001*

Clinician Quality of Care

0.743

2.103

35.805

 < 0.001*

WHO-Quality of Life

0.706

2.025

31.946

 < 0.001*

Personal Wellbeing

1.115

3.048

79.071

 < 0.001*

Constant

-1.572

0.208

16.678

 < 0.001*

  1. Approach: Forward Wald binary logistic regression
  2. Model summary: χ2 (19, N = 1580) = 306.054, p < 0.001. Nagelkerke R2 = 25.4%. Overall prediction success was also modest at 72.5%, with 55.5% of people with good personal wellbeing correctly classified and 83.0% of people classified under poor personal wellbeing
  3. * = statistic is significant at p < 0.05