Hospital workers mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: methods of data collection and characteristics of study sample in a university hospital in Milan (Italy)

Table 2 Health beliefs and COVID-19 related concerns in the whole sample

Total sample N = 550	N	%
Worries of infecting family
Not at all	33	6
Little	85	16
Enough	194	35
Very	238	43
Having felt discriminated as HCW
Not at all	282	51
Little	159	29
Enough	73	13
Very	36	7
Having felt physically avoided as HCW
Never	283	51
Occasionally	197	36
Often	66	12
Always	4	1
Changes in family’s habits
Not at all	49	9
Little	123	22
Enough	177	32
Very	201	37
Having thought about changing jobs
Not at all	361	66
Little	84	15
Enough	68	12
Very	37	7
Fear for self-safety
Not at all	92	17
Little	218	40
Enough	171	31
Very	69	12
Moral injury (for workers with COVID-19 area working experience N = 324)
Not at all	134	41
Little	89	28
Enough	76	23
Very	25	8

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