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Table 3 Doctors’ mood profiles before and after night shifts

From: Doctors’ alertness, contentedness and calmness before and after night shifts: a latent profile analysis

 

Name given

N = 

Alert M ± SD

Content M ± SD

Calm M ± SD

Mixing probabilities

Pre profile

1

Indifferent

35

52.6 ± 6.17

54.8 ± 5.64

51.7 ± 11.1

17.5%

2

Ready

90

67.1 ± 13.6

71.6 ± 13.3

65.4 ± 16.6

51.2%

3

Engaged

64

81.5 ± 6.95

82.1 ± 9.00

82.2 ± 8.78

31.3%

Post profile

1

Lethargic

14

48.7 ± 4.25a

50.5 ± 2.96

49.9 ± 2.70e

7.7%

2

Tired but satisfied

91

48.1 ± 12.7a

64.6 ± 12.6c

66.5 ± 11.6

59.8%

3

Excited

11

72.0 ± 14.6b

75.7 ± 12.8c,d

40.6 ± 12.7e

7.8%

4

Mindful

41

82.5 ± 7.51b

86.5 ± 6.62d

87.1 ± 6.85

24.7%

  1. Identical superscript letters indicate that these profile scores are NOT significant at p < 0.05 (equal variances not assumed). When equal variances are assumed all scores are significantly different