Table 2.
Associations between depression symptoms and demographic variables
| Variable | Depression symptoms (PHQ-9) |
OR | P | 95% CI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | ||||
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 13 (21.7) | 47 (78.3) | 0.446 | 0.06 | 0.19-1.04 |
| Female | 18 (38.3) | 29 (61.7) | |||
| Nationality | |||||
| Saudi | 27 (27) | 73 (73) | 0.277 | 0.189 | 0.058-1.32 |
| Non-Saudi | 4 (75.1) | 3 (42.9) | |||
| Marital status | |||||
| Unmarried | 18 (32.1) | 38 (67.9) | 1.385 | 0.449 | 0.596-3.218 |
| Married | 13 (25.5) | 38 (74.5) | |||
| On-call position | |||||
| Frontline | 22 (31.9) | 47 (68.1) | 1.5 | 0.371 | 0.61-3.7 |
| Second line | 9 (23.7) | 29 (76.3) | |||
| Type of hospital | |||||
| Specialized eye hospital | 19 (29.7) | 45 (70) | 1.09 | 0.842 | 0.464-2.566 |
| General hospital | 12 (27.9) | 31 (72.1) | |||
| Living with an elderly | |||||
| No | 15 (20.3) | 59 (79.7) | 0.27 | 0.003 | 0.11-0.66 |
| Yes | 16 (48.5) | 17 (51.5) | |||
| Number of children | |||||
| 0 | 2 (22.2) | 7 (77.8) | Reference | ||
| 1-2 | 9 (36) | 16 (64) | 1.969 | 0.449 | 0.335-11.57 |
| ≥3 | 4 (19) | 17 (81) | 0.824 | 0.842 | 0.122-5.573 |
| Age | |||||
| 24-30 | 23 (32.4) | 48 (67.6) | Reference | ||
| 31-40 | 5 (33.3) | 10 (66.7) | 1.043 | 0.944 | 0.32-3.41 |
| >40 | 3 (14.3) | 18 (85.7) | 0.348 | 0.105 | 0.093-1.3 |
| Level | |||||
| Resident | 20 (30.3) | 46 (69.7) | 2.26 | 0.137 | 0.759-6.735 |
| Fellow | 6 (60) | 4 (40) | 7.8 | 0.006 | 1.596-38.11 |
| Registrar and consultant | 5 (16.1) | 26 (83.9) | Reference | ||
OR: Odds ratio, CI: Confidence interval, PHQ: Patient Health Questionnaire