Table 2 Frequency of observed and personally experienced discrimination and characteristics associated with the discrimination event
Characteristics of discrimination | Dependent variables | |
|---|---|---|
Witness to discrimination n (%a) | Target of discrimination n (%a) | |
Target of discrimination | ||
 Colleague | 257 (84.3) | – |
 Patient | 211 (69.2) | – |
 Superior | 21 (6.9) | – |
 Other | 5 (1.6) | – |
Reason for discrimination | ||
 Ethnicity | 196 (64.3) | 28 (25.9) |
 Appearance | 175 (57.4) | 27 (25.0) |
 Language | 145 (47.5) | 11 (10.2) |
 Religion | 125 (41.0) | 15 (13.9) |
 Gender | 109 (35.7) | 62 (57.4) |
 Age | 35 (11.5) | 24 (22.2) |
 Other | 23 (7.5) | 20 (18.5) |
Source of discrimination | ||
 Patient | 248 (81.3) | 73 (67.6) |
 Colleague | 169 (55.4) | 39 (36.1) |
 Superior | 62 (20.3) | 36 (33.3) |
 Other | 16 (5.2) | 3 (2.8) |