Table 2. Comparison of Characteristics of Patients with and without Workplace Phobia (n = 288)
CharacteristicsPatients with Workplace Phobia (n = 29)Patients without Workplace Phobia (n = 259)P Value*Cohen's d
Age (years)43.66 (8.9)42.91 (10.9).7210.07
Time in psychiatric treatment5.52 (12.6)9.45 (36.5).5650.11
Time in psychotherapeutic treatment7.45 (13.8)5.46 (14.3).4760.14
Amount of psychosomatic rehabilitation in the past 5 years (weeks)0.93 (2.4)0.58 (2.0).3800.17
Patients with health problems attributed to the work situation (%)58.6 (28.6)26.8 (31.9).0001.01
Duration of sick leave in the past 12 months (weeks)17.07 (19.7)8.62 (13.9).0320.63
Present duration of sick leave (weeks)13.66 (23.0)6.58 (20.9).1220.34
Self-rating of mental and somatic symptom load
Workplace Phobia Screening score2.79 (0.74)0.88 (0.89).0002.19
WHO-5 score1.4 (0.9)1.48 (0.8).6010.10
Burvill rating
    Acute somatic multimorbidity0.49 (0.4)0.41 (0.4).2770.20
    Chronic somatic multimorbidity0.86 (0.56)0.65 (0.55).0690.38
  • Data are means (standard deviations).

  • * 2-Tailed t test for independent samples.

  • P < .01.

  • P < .05.