Table 3

Hazard ratios (HR) of affective and stress related disorders in human service occupations by 4-digit DISCO code; women

Code	Job title	Affective disorders						Stress related disorders
Code	Job title	Controls	Cases	HR crude	HR adj		95% CI	Controls	Cases	HR crude	HR adj	95% CI
*Customer group includes service clerks (DISCO 42) and travel services (DISCO 5111–5113).
†Miscellaneous group consists of counsellors (DISCO 2412), psychologists (DISCO 2445), special education teachers (DISCO 2340), firemen (DISCO 5161), policemen (DISCO 5162), and prison guards (DISCO 5163)
HRs are adjusted for marital status (single yes/no), having children (yes/no), level of education (up to vocational/higher), income level (low/high), total level of unemployment (less than 2 years/over 2 years), residence (town/province), and nationality (Danish/not Danish)
Bold type indicates hazard ratios with 95% confidence limits not including unity are not related to a priori hypothesis.
Health professionals		3038	702	1.60	1.56		1.41–1.73	6112	1007	1.13	1.15	1.06–1.24
2221	Medical doctor	108	18	1.11	1.38		0.83–2.32	181	11	0.40	0.60	0.33–1.12
2230	Midwife/head nurse	174	45	1.79	2.08		1.47–2.96	323	30	0.61	0.88	0.60–1.28
3231	Nursing	783	161	1.45	1.62		1.34–1.98	1633	181	0.75	1.08	0.91–1.28
5132	Nurse-aid	1445	332	1.62	1.51		1.32–1.73	3033	600	1.36	1.20	1.09–1.32
5133	Home nurse-aid	573	146	1.82	1.58		1.30–1.92	942	185	1.35	1.23	1.04–1.45
Education professionals		2358	420	1.24	1.22		1.07–1.38	4778	792	1.12	1.26	1.15–1.37
2320	Sec. school teacher	168	29	1.17	1.35		0.89–2.04	310	28	0.60	0.81	0.54–1.20
2331	Prim. school teacher	800	136	1.18	1.36		1.11–1.68	1492	222	1.01	1.38	1.18–1.62
3310	Pre school teacher	114	34	2.05	2.05		1.38–3.06	204	44	1.45	1.65	1.18–2.31
3320	Child day care prof.	575	132	1.59	1.50		1.21–1.84	1276	288	1.51	1.68	1.46–1.94
3340	Teaching associate	63	10	1.14	1.14		0.58–2.25	168	24	0.96	1.06	0.68–1.64
5131	Child care at home	638	79	0.86	0.79		0.62–1.01	11328	186	0.95	0.88	0.75–1.03
Social workers		307	67	1.48	1.47		1.11–1.95	592	105	1.18	1.47	1.18–1.83
3330	Social care worker	172	42	1.65	1.75		1.23–2.48	323	63	1.29	1.77	1.33–2.35
3443	Social benefit adm.	82	22	1.83	1.84		1.13–3.00	205	32	1.04	1.30	0.88–1.91
3460	Social worker	53	3	0.39	0.41		0.13–1.31	64	10	1.03	1.02	0.52–2.01
Customer services*		570	48	0.59	0.66	0.49–0.89		1091	148	0.92	0.98	0.82–1.17
Miscellaneous†		64	11	1.18	1.34	0.69–2.58		95	16	1.13	1.31	0.76–2.25
Not employed		8970	2511	2.19	1.75	1.61–1.89		18317	5577	2.36	1.92	1.82–2.03
DISCO 4-digit missing		3939	731	1.34	1.24	1.13–1.37		8990	1612	1.29	1.21	1.13–1.30
Ref. others employed		10739	1516	1	1			22625	3263	1	1