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Table 2 Health variables of health mediators

From: On-the-job vocational training of nonprofessional ethnic health workers of a primary health care team improves their sense of coherence

Variables

2013

2015

2017

p

Self-rated health (%)

 Good/excellent

67

61

65

0.537

 Acceptable

20

31

32

 Bad/very bad

13

8

3

Health problem causing at least mild functional limitation (%)

17

23

31

0.928

Health awareness (%)

 Can do much or very much for health

87

92

97

0.079

 Can do little or nothing for health

13

10

6

Sense of coherence (mean ± SD)

61.7 (± 14.6)

64.6 (± 11.8)

70.2 (± 12.8)

0.057

Highly stressed (%)

16.8

9.7

12.5

0.674

Dependence (median; IQR)

20 (11; 22)

15 (9; 21)

15 (9.5; 22.5)

0.513

Perfectionism (median; IQR)

23.5 (17; 38)

20 (17; 29.5)

20 (15; 25)

0.484

Social support, general

 Full (%)

50

60

73

0.333

 Partial (%)

50

40

27

Full social support from co-workers (%)

77.8

82.9

87.5

0.660

Smoking (current vs nonsmokers, %)

56 vs 44

54 vs 46

50 vs 50

0.688