Table 3.
Adverse effects on health by specialty and gender
| Percentages who responded ‘Yes’ to the question ‘Do you feel that working as a doctor has had any adverse effects on your own health or wellbeing?’ | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not retired | Retired and returned | Fully retired | Chi value | p-value (df=2) | ||||
| % | (n/N) | % | (n/N) | % | (n/N) | |||
| All | 55.3 | (893/1614) | 66.9 | (85/127) | 67.0 | (65/97) | 10.9 | 0.004 |
| Men | 52.5 | (512/976) | 68.4 | (54/79) | 57.5 | (23/40) | 7.7 | 0.022 |
| Women | 59.7 | (381/638) | 64.6 | (31/48) | 73.7 | (42/57) | 4.6 | 0.102 |
| General practice | 59.1 | (476/805) | 66.7 | (42/63) | 69.2 | (36/52) | 3.3 | 0.196 |
| Hospital medicinea | 50.8 | (354/697) | 88.5 | (23/26) | 68.8 | (22/32) | 17.7 | <0.001 |
| GP men | 57.9 | (256/442) | 70.7 | (29/41) | 62.5 | (15/24) | 2.7 | 0.264 |
| GP women | 60.6 | (220/363) | 59.1 | (13/22) | 75.0 | (21/28) | 2.3 | 0.312 |
| Hospital mena | 47.2 | (227/481) | 87.5 | (14/16) | 63.6 | (7/11) | 11.1 | 0.004 |
| Hospital womena | 58.8 | (127/216) | 90.0 | (9/10) | 71.4 | (15/21) | 4.9 | 0.085 |
Note: 69 responders are excluded from specialty breakdowns because their career specialty was unknown.
aomits psychiatry (see text)
df = degrees of freedom