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

Table 5 Correlation between some explanatory variables and psychological stress in the pooled data of 2015 and 2017

	Psychol. distress	Education	Subj. wealth	Sense of coh	Social supp
Psychological distress (yes/no)	1.000
Education (primary, secondary, tertiary)	0.011 0.926	1.000
Subjective wealth (poor, acceptable, good)	− 0.368 0.002	0.147 0.236	1.000
Sense of coherence (33–89 points)	− 0.395 0.001	0.327 0.007	0.286 0.019	1.000
Social support (optimal/less than optimal)	− 0.335 0.005	0.010 0.936	0.289 0.018	0.274 0.025	1.000

Spearman’s rho (Spearman correlation coefficients) and corresponding p values are shown in the table
Bold indicates p = significance level (P value). The significance level is the threshold for below which the null hypothesis is rejected even though by assumption it were true, and something else is going on

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