Psychological wellbeing of Australian community health service staff during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal cohort study

Table 4 Impact of time point, professional role and geographic location on respondents’ depression, anxiety and stress scores

Variable	Depression					Anxiety					Stress
Variable	B	Sig.	95% CI	F(1, 792)	Partial η2	B	Sig.	95% CI	F(1, 951)	Partial η2	B	Sig.	95% CI	F(1, 951)	Partial η2
Live with dependent children
No	0.691	0.007	0.190,1.192	7.323	0.009	0.315	0.104	− 0.065,0.695	2.643	0.003	0.307	0.268	− 0.236,0.850	1.229	0.002
Yes (ref)
Age	− 0.031	0.004	− 0.052,-0.010	8.299	0.010	− 0.042	< 0.001	− 0.058,-0.026	26.507	0.033	− 0.050	< 0.001	− 0.073,-0.027	18.007	0.022
BRS Mean score	-1.765	< 0.001	-2.115,-1.415	97.851	0.111	-1.066	< 0.001	-1.332,-0.801	62.028	0.073	-1.922	< 0.001	-2.301,-1.542	98.957	0.112
Professional role
Non-clinical	0.098	0.704	− 0.407,0.602	0.144	0.000	0.127	0.515	− 0.256,0.509	0.423	0.001	0.198	0.478	− 0.349,0.744	0.505	0.001
Clinical (ref)
Self-rated general health
Fair/poor	2.008	< 0.001	1.397,2.618	41.674	0.050	1.383	< 0.001	0.920,1.846	34.437	0.042	1.359	< 0.001	0.697,2.021	16.217	0.020
Good/excellent (ref)
Location
Regional/rural	− 0.068	0.815	− 0.641,0.504	0.055	0.000	− 0.041	0.853	− 0.475,0.393	0.034	0.000	− 0.566	0.074	-1.187,0.055	3.203	0.004
Metro (ref)
COVID-19 contact status
Contact	0.473	0.165	0.194, 1.139,	1.935	0.002	0.026	0.920	− 0.481, 0.533	0.010	0.000	0.399	0.278	− 0.322, 1.121	1.180	0.002
No contact (ref)
Country of birth
Australia	0.252	0.409	− 0.348, 0.853	0.681	0.001	− 0.120	0.606	− 0.576, 0.336	0.266	0.000	0.704	0.034	0.054, 1.354	4.517	0.006
Other (ref)
Survey time point
Two	1.688	< 0.001	1.191,2.186	44.324	0.054	0.881	< 0.001	0.503, 1.258	20.969	0.026	1.811	< 0.001	1.272, 2.351	43.480	0.053
One (ref)

B - Unstandardised coefficient, CI - confidence intervals, η2 eta squared, ref – reference category

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