Table 5.
Associations between stress perception symptoms and demographic variables
| Variable | Stress perception symptoms (PSS) |
P | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low | Moderate | High | ||
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 23 (38.3) | 36 (60) | 1 (1.7) | 0.012* |
| Female | 7 (14.9) | 37 (78.7) | 3 (6.4) | |
| Nationality | ||||
| Saudi | 29 (29) | 67 (67) | 4 (4) | 0.749* |
| Non-Saudi | 1 (14.3) | 6 (85.7) | 0 | |
| Marital status | ||||
| Unmarried | 13 (23.2) | 42 (75) | 1 (1.8) | 0.249* |
| Married | 17 (33.3) | 31 (60.8) | 3 (5.9) | |
| On-call position | ||||
| Frontline | 17 (24.6) | 49 (71) | 3 (4.3) | 0.553* |
| Second line | 13 (34.2) | 24 (63.2) | 1 (2.6) | |
| Type of hospital | ||||
| Specialized eye hospital | 19 (29.7) | 42 (65.6) | 3 (4.7) | 0.709* |
| General hospital | 11 (25.6) | 31 (72.1) | 1 (2.3) | |
| Living with an elderly | ||||
| No | 23 (31.1) | 49 (66.2) | 2 (2.7) | 0.428* |
| Yes | 7 (21.2) | 24 (72.7) | 2 (6.1) | |
| Number of children | ||||
| 0 | 4 (44.4) | 5 (55.6) | 0 | 0.751* |
| 1-2 | 9 (36) | 14 (56) | 2 (8) | |
| ≥3 | 5 (23.8) | 15 (71.4) | 1 (4.8) | |
| Age | ||||
| 24-30 | 18 (25.4) | 51 (71.8) | 2 (2.8) | 0.496* |
| 31-40 | 6 (40) | 8 ( 53.3) | 1 (6.7) | |
| >40 | 6 (28.6) | 14 (66.7) | 1 (4.8) | |
| Level | ||||
| Resident | 16 (24.2) | 47 (71.2) | 3 (4.5) | 0.820* |
| Fellow | 3 (30) | 7 (70) | 0 | |
| Registrar and consultant | 11 (35.5) | 19 (61.3) | 1 (3.2) | |
*Fisher’s exact test. PSS: Perceived Stress Scale