Table 2.
Personal characteristics of highly frustrated physicians
| Physician characteristic | Percent highly frustrated | P value* |
| Age | ||
| <40 years | 40 | <0.001 |
| ≥40 years | 22 | |
| Sex | ||
| Male | 24 | 0.04 |
| Female | 32 | |
| Race | ||
| White | 26 | 0.96 |
| Nonwhite | 26 | |
| Specialty | ||
| Family medicine | 21 | 0.01 |
| General internal medicine | 29 | |
| Medicine subspecialty | 34 | |
| General health | ||
| Good-excellent | 25 | 0.02 |
| Poor-fair | 43 | |
| Often depressed | ||
| No | 24 | 0.004 |
| Yes | 42 | |
| Often anxious | ||
| No | 23 | <0.001 |
| Yes | 47 | |
| Stress | ||
| Below average | 16 | <0.001 |
| Above average | 36 |
* Pearson's chi-square, adjusted for sampling weights and stratification