Exploration of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of home health care workers in Japan: a multicenter cross-sectional web-based survey

Table 1 Participants’ background characteristics

	n = 311	%
Age
20's	21	6.8
30's	85	27.3
40's	117	37.6
50's	67	21.5
60's	17	5.5
70's	3	1.0
Sex
male	94	30.2
female	216	69.5
Contact with patients in daily practice
Yes	236	75.9
Type of occupation
Doctor	77	24.8
Nurse	102	32.8
Medical social worker	21	6.8
Medical office staff	56	18.0
Other	54	17.4
Years of experience
≤ 2 years	38	12.2
3–4 years	35	11.3
5–9 years	65	20.9
10–19 years	84	27.0
≥ 20 years	88	28.3
Living with family
Yes	256	82.3
Living with family under 15 years old
Yes	140	45.0
Living with family over 65 years old
Yes	56	18.0
Have participated in training on use of personal protective equipment
Yes, before January 2020	63	20.3
Yes, after February 2020	81	26.0
No	164	52.7
Have received coronavirus vaccine at least once
Yes	294	94.5
Were you ever at risk of contracting COVID-19?
Yes	176	56.6
Were your family or friends ever at the risk of contracting COVID-19?
Yes	135	43.4
During the past month, how stressed have you been about COVID-19?
Not at all/Not much	24	7.7
Neither	19	6.1
A great deal/Quite a bit	265	85.2
How do you feel about your own health condition compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic?
No change	250	80.4
Better	17	5.5
Worse	41	13.2
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased my workload
Absolutely disagree/Disagree/Somewhat disagree	56	18.0
Absolutely agree/Agree/Somewhat agree	248	79.7
The Japanese version of Assessment of Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale-II (n = 293)
mean ± standard deviation	35.4 ± 5.7
median (min, max)	36.0 (9.0, 45.0)

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