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Table 4 Demographic and clinical characteristics according to the current physicians’ role

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

 

Frontline physicians (n = 48)

Second-line physicians (n = 272)

X2 or ANOVA, P

M (SD)

Age

32.3 (4.5)

35.0 (6.2)

8.5, 0.004

Number of daily working hours

9.2 (4.4)

8.2 (4.9)

1.8, 0.183

Number of working days/w

4.8 (1.5)

4.4 (1.5)

1.7, 0.196

HADS

 Total anxiety scores

9.1 (5.2)

7.8 (4.3)

3.5, 0.061

 Total depression scores

9.2 (2.9)

9.0 (3.3)

0.6, 0.759

FCV-19S score

19.7 (3.3)

19.8 (5.1)

0.2, 0.995

Maslach Burnout Inventory

 Total emotional exhaustion score

26.2 (8.8)

24.2 (9.5)

1.8, 0.183

 Total depersonalization score

22.0 (9.4)

18.4 (9.2)

6.3, 0.013

 Total personal accomplishment score

26.8 (7.3)

27.4 (6.8)

0.3, 0.561

WHOQOL-BREF

 Physical Health domain

48.4 (18.7)

50.4 (16.6)

0.6, 0.451

 Psychological health domain

51.4 (19.2)

50.3 (19.1)

0.1, 0.719

 Social relationship domain

51.5 (19.6)

55.6 (18.8)

1.8, 0.176

 Environmental domain

43.5 (16.3)

48.1 (15.9)

3.4, 0.065

 

N (%)

 

Gender

 Male

21 (43.8)

96 (35.3)

1.3, 0.262

 Female

27 (56.2)

176 (64.7)

Marital status

 Non-married

18 (37.5)

69 (25.4)

3.0, 0.082

 Married

30 (62.5)

203 (74.6)

Title

 Fresh graduate/resident

21 (43.8)

85 (31.2)

2.9, 0.090

 Specialist/consultant

27 (56.2)

187 (68.8)

Received training-related to pandemic

 No

30 (62.5)

199 (73.2)

2.3, 0.131

 Yes

18 (37.5)

73 (26.8)

Satisfied with the hospital infection control precautions

 No

42 (87.5)

224 (82.4)

0.8, 0.380

 Yes

6 (12.5)

48 (17.6)

History of medical colleague affection with COVID-19 virus infection

 No

11 (22.9)

173 (63.6)

27.6, < 0.001

 Yes

37 (77.1)

99 (36.4)

Smoking

 No

35 (72.9)

251 (92.3)

16.1, < 0.001

 Yes

13 (27.1)

21 (7.7)

Ideas about death during pandemic

 No

40 (83.3)

246 (90.4)

2.2, 0.141

 Yes

8 (16.7)

26 (9.6)

  1. HADS Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, FCV-19S Fear of Covid-19 Scale