Addressing the relationship between perceived fear of COVID-19 virus infection and emergence of burnout symptoms in a sample of Egyptian physicians during COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

Abdelghani, Mohamed; El-Gohary, Hayam M.; Fouad, Eman; Hassan, Mervat S.

doi:10.1186/s43045-020-00079-0

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 1 Association between demographic and clinical characteristics of physicians and the three domains of Maslach Burnout Inventory

From: Addressing the relationship between perceived fear of COVID-19 virus infection and emergence of burnout symptoms in a sample of Egyptian physicians during COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

Maslach Burnout Inventory	Emotional exhaustion		Depersonalization	Personal accomplishment
Maslach Burnout Inventory	Pearson correlation (r)
Age	− 0.2**		− 0.3***	0.2**
Number of daily working hours	0.2***		0.2***	0.2
Number of weekly working days	0.1		0.1	0.1*
HADS
Total anxiety scores	0.5***		0.4***	-0.2**
Total depression scores	0.4***		0.3***	-0.2**
	M (SD), MWU test
Gender
Male	25.3 (9.6)	− 1.2	20.6 (9.3)	− 2.7**	28.8 (6.4)	− 2.9**
Female	24.0 (9.3)	− 1.2	17.9 (9.2)	− 2.7**	27.4 (6.9)	− 2.9**
Marital status
Non-married	25.4 (9.0)	− 1.1	20.5 (9.4)	− 1.9	27.7 (7.4)	− 0.4
Married	24.2 (9.5)	− 1.1	18.3 (9.2)	− 1.9	27.2 (6.7)	− 0.4
Title
Fresh graduate/resident	27.5 (8.3)	− 4.1***	22.5 (9.4)	− 4.7***	26.7 (6.9)	− 1.3
Specialist/consultant	23.0 (9.6)	− 4.1***	17.1 (8.8)	− 4.7***	27.7 (6.9)	− 1.3
Received training-related to pandemic
No	25.6 (9.1)	− 3.5***	19.9 (9.3)	− 2.9**	26.7 (6.6)	− 2.2*
Yes	21.6 (9.5)	− 3.5***	16.6 (9.0)	− 2.9**	28.8 (7.3)	− 2.2*
Satisfied with the hospital infection control precautions
No	25.9 (9.2)	− 5.9***	19.9 (9.3)	− 4.2***	27.1 (6.9)	− 1.3
Yes	17.7 (7.5)	− 5.9***	14.1 (7.5)	− 4.2***	28.4 (6.8)	− 1.3
Physician’s role
2nd line physician	24.2 (9.5)	− 1.3	18.4 (9.2)	− 2.4*	27.4 (6.8)	-0.6
Frontline physician	26.2 (8.8)	− 1.3	22.0 (9.4)	− 2.4*	26.8 (7.3)	-0.6
History of medical colleague affection with COVID-19 virus infection
No	22.8 (8.9)	− 3.7***	17.1 (8.7)	− 3.8***	27.6 (7.0)	-0.8
Yes	26.7 (9.6)	− 3.7***	21.3 (9.6)	− 3.8***	27.0 (6.7)	-0.8
History of mental illness
No	23.2 (9.3)	− 4.1***	18.1 (9.0)	− 2.5*	27.4 (6.9)	− 0.1
Yes	28.1 (8.8)	− 4.1***	21.2 (9.7)	− 2.5*	27.3 (7.0)	− 0.1
History of chronic medical illness
No	24.2 (9.3)	− 0.8	19.1 (9.3)	− 0.9	27.2 (7.0)	− 0.7
Yes	25.5 (9.9)	− 0.8	18.2 (9.2)	− 0.9	27.9 (6.5)	− 0.7
Smoking
No	24.2 (9.5)	− 1.7	18.5 (9.2)	− 2.6**	27.2 (6.9)	− 1.0
Yes	27.0 (8.3)	− 1.7	22.9 (9.1)	− 2.6**	28.4 (6.7)	− 1.0
Ideas about death during pandemic
No	23.9 (9.3)	− 3.1**	18.3 (9.2)	− 3.5***	27.6 (7.0)	− 2.4*
Yes	29.2 (8.8)	− 3.1**	24.2 (8.8)	− 3.5***	24.9 (5.4)	− 2.4*

HADS Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001

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