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Table 5 Sleep aid medicine use, alcohol consumption, sexual harassment, verbal harassment and depression among working airline pilots

From: Airplane pilot mental health and suicidal thoughts: a cross-sectional descriptive study via anonymous web-based survey

Taken medicine (prescribed or “over the counter”) to help with sleep among those worked in past 30 days (n = 1425)a

 Elevated Depression Symptomsb

Not during past month

< Once a week

Once or twice a week

Three or more times a week

Total

  No, n (%)

875 (89.6)

170 (86.7)

118 (79.7)

70 (66.7)

1233 (86.5)

  Yes, n (%)

101 (10.4)

26 (13.3)

30 (20.3)

35 (33.3)

192 (13.5)

Alcohol Consumption among those worked in past 30 days (n = 1417)

 Elevated Depression Symptomsb

Never or < 1 Drink per month

>1 Drink per month to 1 Drink per week

> 1 Drink per week to 1 Drink per day

>1 Drink per day

Total

  No, n (%)

119 (83.8)

341 (87.0)

666 (87.0)

98 (83.8)

1224 (86.4)

  Yes, n (%)

23 (16.2)

51 (13.0)

100 (13.1)

19 (16.2)

193 (13.6)

Frequency of sexual harassment in last 12 months among those worked in past 30 days (n = 1414)a

 Elevated Depression Symptomsb

Never

1 time

2–3 times

4 or more times

Total

  No, n (%)

1129 (87.0)

62 (88.6)

24 (68.6)

7 (63.6)

1222 (86.4)

  Yes, n (%)

169 (13.0)

8 (11.4)

11 (31.4)

4 (36.4)

192 (13.6)

Frequency of verbal harassment in last 12 months among those worked in past 30 days (n = 1398)a

 Elevated Depression Symptomsb

Never

1 time

2–3 times

4 or more times

Total

  No, n (%)

973 (88.7)

148 (83.6)

74 (71.8)

12 (57.1)

1207 (86.3)

  Yes, n (%)

124 (11.3)

29 (16.4)

29 (28.2)

9 (42.9)

191 (13.7)

  1. aFisher’s exact test (two-sided) and trend test p-value < 0.05
  2. bElevated Depression Symptoms means PHQ-9 total score ≥ 10