Table 2 Association between demographic and clinical characteristics of physicians and the four domains of WHOQOL-BREF
WHOQOL-BREF | Physical health | Psychological health | Social relationship | Environmental | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pearson correlation (r) | ||||||||
Age | 0.06 | 0.11 | − 0.01 | 0.05 | ||||
Number of daily working hours | − 0.05 | − 0.09 | − 0.01 | − 0.17** | ||||
Number of weekly working days | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.02 | − 0.01 | ||||
HADS | Â | Â | Â | Â | ||||
 Total anxiety scores | − 0.65*** | − 0.63*** | − 0.49*** | − 0.60*** | ||||
 Total depression scores | − 0.62*** | − 0.64*** | − 0.49*** | − 0.50*** | ||||
M (SD), MWU test | ||||||||
Gender | ||||||||
 Male | 55.8 (16.9) | − 4.4*** | 54.0 (19.0) | − 2.2* | 56.4 (19.1) | − 1.0 | 48.6 (15.6) | − 0.8 |
 Female | 46.9 (16.1) | 48.4 (18.9) | 54.2 (18.9) | 46.68 (16.2) | ||||
Marital status | ||||||||
 Non-married | 49.7 (16.5) | − 0.2 | 50.1 (20.1) | − 0.1 | 52.3 (18.3) | − 1.6 | 46.7 (16.9) | − 0.5 |
 Married | 50.3 (17.1) | 50.6 (18.8) | 55.9 (19.1) | 47.7 (15.7) | ||||
Title | ||||||||
 Fresh graduate/resident | 48.0 (16.1) | − 1.8 | 45.6 (17.2) | − 3.1** | 54.2 (18.9) | − 0.3 | 44.4 (15.3) | − 2.6* |
 Specialist/consultant | 51.2 (17.2) | 52.8 (19.6) | 55.3 (19.0) | 48.9 (16.2) | ||||
Received training-related to pandemic | ||||||||
 No | 48.3 (16.9) | − 2.8** | 47.9 (18.4) | − 3.6*** | 52.6 (18.7) | − 3.6*** | 45.5 (15.8) | − 3.3** |
 Yes | 54.6 (16.2) | 56.8 (19.4) | 60.8 (18.5) | 52.2 (15.5) | ||||
Satisfied with the hospital infection control precautions | ||||||||
 No | 47.9 (16.2) | − 4.7*** | 48.2 (18.8) | − 4.7*** | 53.0 (18.7) | − 3.8*** | 44.8 (15.1) | − 6.2*** |
 Yes | 60.9 (16.3) | 61.5 (17.0) | 64.5 (17.6) | 60.0 (14.5) | ||||
Physician’s role | ||||||||
 2nd line physician | 50.4 (16.6) | − 0.5 | 50.3 (19.1) | − 0.3 | 55.6 (18.8) | − 1.6 | 48.1 (15.9) | − 1.9 |
 Frontline physician | 48.4 (18.7) | 51.4 (19.2) | 51.54 (19.6) | 43.5 (16.3) | ||||
History of medical colleague affection with COVID-19 virus infection | ||||||||
 No | 52.1 (16.0) | − 2.3* | 51.52 (18.6) | − 1.3 | 56.6 (18.4) | − 2.0* | 50.5 (15.2) | − 3.9*** |
 Yes | 47.5 (17.83) | 49.0 (19.8) | 52.7 (19.6) | 43.2 (16.2) | ||||
History of mental illness | ||||||||
 No | 52.8 (15.9) | − 4.5*** | 52.8 (18.2) | − 3.9*** | 57.5 (17.9) | − 3.9*** | 49.50 (15.4) | − 4.2*** |
 Yes | 42.6 (17.5) | 43.9 (20.1) | 47.9 (20.2) | 41.6 (16.4) | ||||
History of chronic medical illness | ||||||||
 No | 51.7 (16.0) | − 2.8** | 50.9 (18.9) | − 0.8 | 56.4 (18.5) | − 2.5* | 48.2 (15.9) | − 1.3 |
 Yes | 44.6 (19.0) | 48.7 (19.8) | 50.1 (19.8) | 44.7 (16.3) | ||||
Smoking | ||||||||
 No | 49.6 (17.0) | − 1.8 | 50.5 (19.3) | − 0.4 | 55.1 (18.8) | − 0.1 | 47.5 (16.2) | − 0.4 |
 Yes | 54.9 (15.4) | 49.6 (18.0) | 54.2 (20.5) | 46.4 (14.3) | ||||
Ideas about death during pandemic | ||||||||
 No | 51.2 (16.7) | − 3.4** | 51.2 (19.0) | − 2.3* | 55.6 (18.2) | − 1.5 | 48.3 (16.1) | − 3.5** |
 Yes | 41.0 (16.1) | 44.12 (19.4) | 49.6 (24.0) | 39.4 (12.6) | ||||