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Volume 12, Number 12—December 2006
Research

Long-term Psychological and Occupational Effects of Providing Hospital Healthcare during SARS Outbreak

Robert G. Maunder*†Comments to Author , William J. Lancee*†, Kenneth E. Balderson*‡, Jocelyn P. Bennett*, Bjug Borgundvaag*†, Susan Evans§, Christopher M.B. Fernandes¶#, David S. Goldbloom†**, Mona Gupta†††, Jonathan J. Hunter*†, Linda McGillis Hall†, Lynn M. Nagle†, Clare Pain*†, Sonia S. Peczeniuk‡‡, Glenna Raymond§§, Nancy Read‡, Sean B. Rourke†‡, Rosalie J. Steinberg*†, Thomas E. Stewart*†, Susan VanDeVelde Coke††, Georgina G. Veldhorst¶¶, and Donald A. Wasylenki†‡
Author affiliations: *Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; †University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ‡Saint Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; §The Scarborough Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ¶Hamilton Health Sciences Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; #McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; **Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ††Sunnybrook and Women's Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ‡‡Rouge Valley Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; §§Whitby Mental Health Centre, Whitby, Canada; ¶¶North York General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Table 3

Demographic and job characteristics of participants, Impact of SARS Study*

Characteristics Toronto % (n = 587) Hamilton % (n = 182) p value
Female 86.0 89.6 0.22
Single 23.7 20.3
Married or common-law 65.2 68.1
Separated or widowed 11.1 11.5 0.41
Living with child <16 y of age 36.3 36.8 0.90
Living with adult >65 y of age 9.2 5.5 0.11
Worked in healthcare >10 y 65.1 68.7 0.37
Worked any shifts during SARS in
Surgical inpatient unit 13.8 18.7 0.11
Medical inpatient unit 26.4 21.4 0.18
Isolation unit with SARS patients 22.5 †
Intensive care unit 32.9 34.1 0.66
Emergency department 32.2 24.7 0.06

*SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome.
†Hamilton had no patients with SARS.

*SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome.
†Hamilton had no patients with SARS.

*SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome.
†Hamilton had no patients with SARS.

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