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Global Health Economics and
Sustainability
Fatigue, quality of life, and social support in Greek health staff

Table 7. Average values of scales and subscales
MSPSS Family Friends Fatigue Social Factor A: Factor B: Factor Factor D: Total
support Physical Anxiety/ C: Social Severe GHQ‑28
symptoms Insomnia dysfunction depression
N
Valid 159 159 159 159 159 158 159 159 159 158
Missing 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Mean 5.6572 5.5283 5.2830 2.5063 5.4892 1.0859 1.0108 0.9928 0.3477 0.8626
Standard deviation 1.35407 1.42341 1.46804 0.53471 1.28554 0.63088 0.69384 0.43360 0.49917 0.46787
Minimum 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.14 0.00 0.07
Maximum 7.00 7.00 7.00 4.20 7.00 2.57 3.00 2.57 2.71 2.57
Abbreviations: GHQ-28: General health questionnaire-28; MSPSS: Multidimensional scale of perceived social support.

Table 8. Descriptive analysis of scales and subscales by field of work
Place of work N Mean Standard deviation Standard error of mean
MSPSS Public hospital 64 5.4453 1.50691 0.18836
Private clinic/hospital 95 5.8000 1.22832 0.12602
Family Public hospital 64 5.3203 1.67229 0.20904
Private clinic/hospital 95 5.6684 1.21736 0.12490
Friends Public hospital 64 5.0742 1.54796 0.19350
Private clinic/hospital 95 5.4237 1.40245 0.14389
Private clinic/hospital 95 5.6307 1.16601 0.11963
Fatigue Public hospital 64 2.6312 0.57096 0.07137
Private clinic/hospital 95 2.4221 0.49426 0.05071
Social support Public hospital 64 5.2899 1.41845 0.17731
Private clinic/hospital 95 5.6234 1.17648 0.12070
Private clinic/hospital 95 5.6526 1.26315 0.12960
Factor A: Physical symptoms Public hospital 64 1.2679 0.61432 0.07679
Private clinic/hospital 94 0.9620 0.61478 0.06341
Factor B: Anxiety/Insomnia Public hospital 64 1.2433 0.78316 0.09789
Private clinic/hospital 95 0.8541 0.58009 0.05952
Factor C: Social dysfunction Public hospital 64 1.1205 0.45973 0.05747
Private clinic/hospital 95 0.9068 0.39469 0.04049
Factor D: Severe depression Public hospital 64 0.4665 0.61048 0.07631
Private clinic/hospital 95 0.2677 0.39109 0.04012
Total GHQ-28 Public hospital 64 1.0246 0.51231 0.06404
Private clinic/hospital 94 0.7523 0.40174 0.04144
Abbreviations: GHQ-28: General health questionnaire-28; MSPSS: Multidimensional scale of perceived social support.

The MSPSS variable was significantly positively correlated variable (r[62] = −0.35, p = 0.01), and complete GHQ-28
with the family subscale variable (r[62] = 0.80, p = 0.00) and questionnaire (r[62] = −0.41, p = 0.00) (Table 10). The family
with the friends subscale variable (r[62] = 0.74, p = 0.00). subscale variable was significantly positively correlated
However, it was significantly negatively correlated with with the friends subscale variable (r[62] = 0.71, p = 0.00)
the physical symptoms factor (r[62] = −0.26, p = 0.05), but not with the physical symptoms factor (r[62] = −0.22,
anxiety/insomnia factor (r[62] = −0.30, p = 0.02), social p = 0.09). It was significantly negatively correlated with
dysfunction factor (r[62] = −0.52, p = 0.00), severe the anxiety/insomnia factor (r[62] = −0.30, p = 0.02),
depression factor (r[62] = −0.37, p = 0.00), fatigue social dysfunction factor (r[62] = −0.47, p = 0.00), severe

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