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

Table 9. Pearson correlation across scales in the dataset
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
MSPSS
Pearson correlation 1 0.808** 0.722** −0.249** 0.916** −0.295** −0.387** −0.498** −0.418** −0.468**
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.002 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
N 159 159 159 159 159 158 159 159 159 158
Family
Pearson correlation 0.808** 1 0.713** −0.264** 0.907** −0.245** −0.347** −0.406** −0.424** −0.415**
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.001 0.000 0.002 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
N 159 159 159 159 159 158 159 159 159 158
Friends
Pearson correlation 0.722** 0.713** 1 −0.196* 0.889** −0.213** −0.311** −0.371** −0.297** −0.350**
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.013 0.000 0.007 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
N 159 159 159 159 159 158 159 159 159 158
Overall social
support-quality of Life
Pearson correlation 0.921** 0.921** 0.894** −0.259** 0.991** −0.274** −0.381** −0.464** −0.415** −0.449**
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.001 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
N 159 159 159 159 159 158 159 159 159 158
Fatigue
Pearson correlation −0.249** −0.264** −0.196* 1 −0.261** 0.592** 0.592** 0.550** 0.431** 0.658**
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.002 0.001 0.013 0.001 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
N 159 159 159 159 159 158 159 159 159 158
Social support
Pearson correlation 0.916** 0.907** 0.889** −0.261** 1 −0.281** −0.390** −0.451** −0.402** −0.447**
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.001 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
N 159 159 159 159 159 158 159 159 159 158
Quality of life
Pearson correlation 0.852** 0.875** 0.829** −0.229** 0.879** −0.234** −0.323** −0.460** −0.412** −0.418**
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.004 0.000 0.003 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
N 159 159 159 159 159 158 159 159 159 158
Factor A: Physical symptoms
Pearson correlation −0.295** −0.245** −0.213** 0.592** −0.281** 1 0.733** 0.517** 0.449** 0.847**
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.000 0.002 0.007 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
N 158 158 158 158 158 158 158 158 158 158
Factor B: Anxiety/Insomnia
Pearson correlation −0.387** −0.347** −0.311** 0.592** −0.390** 0.733** 1 0.597** 0.542** 0.897**
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
N 159 159 159 159 159 158 159 159 159 158
Factor C: Social dysfunction
Pearson correlation −0.498** −0.406** −0.371** 0.550** −0.451** 0.517** 0.597** 1 0.605** 0.784**
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
N 159 159 159 159 159 158 159 159 159 158
Factor D: Severe depression
Pearson correlation −0.418** −0.424** −0.297** 0.431** −0.402** 0.449** 0.542** 0.605** 1 0.757**
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
N 159 159 159 159 159 158 159 159 159 158
Total GHQ-28
Pearson correlation −0.468** −0.415** −0.350** 0.658** −0.447** 0.847** 0.897** 0.784** 0.757** 1
Sig. (two-tailed) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
N 158 158 158 158 158 158 158 158 158 158
Abbreviations: GHQ-28: General health questionnaire-28; MSPSS: Multidimensional scale of perceived social support; Sig: Significance.

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