Factors Influencing Infection Anxiety in Korean Male Firefighters Due to COVID-19 Infection Status
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Research Design
2.2. Study Subjects
2.3. Research Tools
2.4. Data Collection
2.5. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Differences in Infection Anxiety between COVID-19 Infectee and Non-Infectee by General Characteristics
3.2. Job Stress, Self-Care Behavior, Vaccination Status, and Infection Anxiety by COVID-19 Infection Status
3.3. Correlations between Study Variables
3.4. Factors Influencing COVID-19 Infection Anxiety
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Characteristics | Category | Infected (n = 103) | Non-Infected (n = 102) | ||||||
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n (%) | M (SD) | t/F | p | n (%) | M (SD) | t/F | p | ||
Age | <40 | 59 (57.3) | 3.45 (0.64) | −0.96 | 0.340 | 61 (59.8) | 3.38 (0.69) | −1.47 | 0.145 |
≥40 | 44 (42.7) | 3.57 (0.56) | 41 (40.2) | 3.56 (0.50) | |||||
Working period | 1–10 years | 64 (62.1) | 3.47 (0.65) | 1.08 | 0.358 | 67 (65.7) | 3.37 (0.67) | 1.08 | 0.358 |
11–20 years | 28 (27.2) | 3.54 (0.50) | 19 (18.6) | 3.63 (0.49) | |||||
21–30 years | 10 (9.7) | 3.56 (0.63) | 13 (12.8) | 3.54 (0.53) | |||||
More than 31 years | 1 (1.0) | 3.78 (-) | 3 (2.9) | 3.67 (0.68) | |||||
Marriage | Unmarried | 37 (35.9) | 3.38 (0.71) | −1.45 | 0.152 | 48 (47.1) | 3.26 (0.64) | −3.07 | 0.003 |
Married | 66 (64.1) | 3.57 (0.53) | 54 (52.9) | 3.62 (0.56) | |||||
Chronic disease | Have | 7 (6.8) | 3.57 (0.39) | 0.32 | 0.746 | 12 (11.8) | 3.44 (0.58) | −0.10 | 0.921 |
Not have | 96 (93.2) | 3.49 (0.62) | 90 (88.2) | 3.45 (0.63) | |||||
Subjective healthstatus | Healthy, very good | 79 (76.7) | 3.54 (0.60) | 0.35 | 0.703 | 69 (67.7) | 3.45 (0.60) | 0.35 | 0.703 |
Normal | 23 (22.3) | 3.34 (0.63) | 31 (30.4) | 3.47 (0.68) | |||||
Unhealthy, not good | 1 (1.0) | 3.78 (-) | 2 (2.0) | 3.39 (0.86) |
Variable | Infected (n = 103) | Non-Infected (n = 102) | t | p |
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M (SD) | M (SD) | |||
COVID-19 infection anxiety | 3.50 (0.60) | 3.45 (0.62) | 0.55 | 0.581 |
Job stress | 2.10 (0.31) | 2.12 (0.29) | −0.29 | 0.772 |
COVID-19 self-care behavior | 3.29 (0.52) | 3.26 (0.54) | 0.41 | 0.684 |
COVID-19 vaccination status | 1.00 (0.05) | 0.99 (0.10) | 0.45 | 0.652 |
Variable | COVID-19 Infection Anxiety | |
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Infected (n = 103) | Non-Infected (n = 102) | |
r (p) | r (p) | |
Job stress | 0.170 (0.086) | −0.045 (0.650) |
COVID-19 self-care behavior | 0.298 (0.002) | 0.387 (<0.001) |
COVID-19 vaccination status | 0.082 (0.409) | 0.073 (0.469) |
COVID-19 infection anxiety | 1 | 1 |
Variable | B | SE | β | t | p |
Infected (n = 103) | |||||
(Constant) | 0.580 | 1.261 | - | 0.46 | 0.646 |
Job stress | 0.485 | 0.187 | 0.247 | 2.59 | 0.011 |
COVID-19 self-care behavior | 0.396 | 0.111 | 0.343 | 3.58 | 0.001 |
COVID-19 vaccination status | 0.599 | 1.153 | 0.049 | 0.52 | 0.605 |
Durbin–Watson = 2.069, Tolerance Limit = 0.937~0.975, VIF = 1.025~1.067, R2 = 0.2482, Adjusted R2 = 0.2223, F = 5.74, p = 0.001 | |||||
Variable | B | SE | β | t | p |
Non-infected (n = 102) | |||||
(Constant) | 1.836 | 0.873 | - | 2.10 | 0.038 |
Marriage | |||||
Unmarried | −0.324 | 0.112 | −0.260 | −2.88 | 0.005 |
Married (ref) | |||||
Job stress | 0.066 | 0.202 | 0.030 | 0.33 | 0.744 |
COVID-19 self-care behavior | 0.428 | 0.106 | 0.374 | 4.06 | 0.001 |
COVID-19 vaccination status | 0.233 | 0.570 | 0.037 | 0.41 | 0.684 |
Durbin–Watson = 2.080, Tolerance Limit = 0.932~0.978, VIF = 1.023~1.072, R2 = 0.3227, Adjusted R2 = 0.2906, F = 6.95, p < 0.001 |
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Han, S.-W.; Jung, H.-O. Factors Influencing Infection Anxiety in Korean Male Firefighters Due to COVID-19 Infection Status. Healthcare 2023, 11, 1623. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11111623
Han S-W, Jung H-O. Factors Influencing Infection Anxiety in Korean Male Firefighters Due to COVID-19 Infection Status. Healthcare. 2023; 11(11):1623. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11111623
Chicago/Turabian StyleHan, Seung-Woo, and Hyun-Ok Jung. 2023. "Factors Influencing Infection Anxiety in Korean Male Firefighters Due to COVID-19 Infection Status" Healthcare 11, no. 11: 1623. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11111623