Table 3.
Associations between anxiety symptoms and demographic variables
| Variable | Anxiety symptoms (GAD-7) |
OR | P | 95% CI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | ||||
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 18 (30) | 42 (70) | 0.447 | 0.046 | 0.2-0.99 |
| Female | 23 (48.9) | 24 (51.1) | |||
| Nationality | |||||
| Saudi | 34 (34) | 66 (66) | 0.001 | ||
| Non-Saudi | 7 (100) | 0 | |||
| Marital status | |||||
| Unmarried | 21 (37.5) | 35 (62.5) | 0.93 | 0.855 | 4.26-2.029 |
| Married | 20 (39.2) | 31 (60.8) | |||
| On-call position | |||||
| Frontline | 30 (43.5) | 39 (56.5) | 1.89 | 0.139 | 0.809-4.406 |
| Second line | 11 (28.9) | 27 (71.1) | |||
| Type of hospital | |||||
| Specialized eye hospital | 26 (40.6) | 38 (59.4) | 1.277 | 0.549 | 0.573-2.846 |
| General hospital | 15 (34.9) | 28 (65.1) | |||
| Living with an elderly | |||||
| No | 25 (33.8) | 49 (66.2) | 0.542 | 0.149 | 0.235-1.25 |
| Yes | 16 (48.5) | 17 (51.5) | |||
| Number of children | |||||
| 0 | 4 (44.4) | 5 (55.6) | Reference | ||
| 1-2 | 8 (32) | 17 (68) | 0.588 | 0.503 | 0.124-2.8 |
| ≥3 | 9 (42.9) | 12 (57.1) | 0.938 | 0.936 | 0.194-4.522 |
| Age | |||||
| 24-30 | 29 (40.8) | 42 (59.2) | Reference | ||
| 31-40 | 5 (33.3) | 10 (66.7) | 0.724 | 0.589 | 0.224-2.341 |
| >40 | 7 (33.3) | 14 (66.7) | 0.724 | 0.536 | 0.26-2.015 |
| Level | |||||
| Resident | 26 (39.4) | 40 (60.6) | 1.365 | 0.498 | 0.555-3.359 |
| Fellow | 5 (50) | 5 (50) | 2.1 | 0.31 | 0.492-8.956 |
| Registrar and consultant | 10 (32.3) | 21 (67.7) | Reference | ||
OR: Odds ratio, CI: Confidence interval, GAD: Generalized Anxiety Disorder