Sir,
We would like to thank the authors for their valuable comments and queries on the article by us, Chatterjee et al.,[1] titled “Attitude, practice, behavior, and mental health impact of COVID-19 on doctors.”
Though not in specific, comprehensively knowledge and attitude were assessed with the questions such as – “when you heard about COVID-19,” inquiring “whether doing duty,” “the duty hours,” “whether involved in high-risk procedures,” “feeling proud to be a doctor,” and “being ostracized by the society.” We collected data using Google Form and then transferred them to excel and subsequently to SPSS version 25 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA).[2]
The higher standard deviation in depression and anxiety subscale points that it is spread out over a large range of values around mean, depending on responses. Here, running a normality test would have been better. However, more than the between-group difference, the goal was to find out the predictive factors of depression, anxiety, and stress. There were typographical errors in Table 1 (corrigendum attached) and another in the reference number 6,[3] both of which are corrected in this reply. We found that 87 doctors had no comorbid illness and 9 doctors have all the major three comorbidities (diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).
Table 1.
Corrigendum
| Comorbidities | Total sample (n=152), n (%) | No depression (n=99), n (%) | Depression patient (n=53), n (%) | χ2/t | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diabetes only (T2DM) | 2 (1.3) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (3.8) | 15.218 | 0.03* |
| HTN only | 16 (10.5) | 14 (14.1) | 2 (3.8) | ||
| COPD only | 19 (12.5) | 13 (13.1) | 6 (11.3) | ||
| None | 87 (57.2) | 58 (58.6) | 29 (54.7) | ||
| Diabetes + HTN + COPD | 9 (5.9) | 3 (3.0) | 6 (11.3) | ||
| Diabetes + HTN | 9 (5.9) | 6 (6.1) | 3 (5.7) | ||
| Diabetes + COPD | 8 (5.4) | 5 (5.1) | 3 (5.7) | ||
| HTN + COPD | 2 (1.3) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (3.8) |
*P<.5 was considered significant. COPD – Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; HTN – Hypertension; T2DM – Type 2 diabetes mellitus
The study has been approved by the institutional ethics committee. The repetitiveness of the table was done for better comprehensibility.
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