Table 3.

Personal stressors. Participants who identified personal stressors versus those who did not identify personal stressors. Examples of personal stressors were moving, family illnesses, financial losses, breakups

	Personal stressors were declared	Personal stressors were not declared
Number	9	47
Age (range)	27.5 (26–29)	29 (26–35)
Female gender	67%	50%
Postgraduate year	PGY I 44 %, PGY II 22 %, PGY III 33 %	PGY I 64 %, PGY II 18 %, PGY III 18 %
IES-R total (range)	18(l-56) [mean=24.0]	17(l–59) [mean=18.9]
IES-R avoidance	7 (0–17)	7 (0–24)
IES-R intrusion	8 (0–24)	8 (0–22)
IES-R hyperarousal	3 (1–15)	2 (0–13)
Number of end-of-life patients (#) during rotation	5 (1–20)	4 (0–10)
Were death experiences the most stressful?	88%	65 %
Did you derive a sense of meaning from working with end-of-life patients?	75 %	63%

Parentheses indicate range

IES-R Impact of Events Scale-Revised, PGY postgraduate year