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. 2020 Dec 20;68:90–96. doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2020.12.010

Table 3.

Anxiety related to personal issues for the health care workers.

Variables BAI Score
Home sharing status/I live with… N Mean SD Fdf1, df2 P
None 1190 14.09 11.50 0.3931, 1414 0.531
Alone 226 14.62 11.64
None 1067 14.25 11.78 0.1891, 1414 0.663
My spouse /partner 349 13.95 10.71
None 751 14.71 11.23 3.4021, 1414 0.065
My spouse/partner, children 665 13.58 11.83
None 1380 14.11 11.51 2.1731, 1414 0.141
My children 36 16.97 11.98
None 1378 14.21 11.59 0.3731, 1414 0.542
A flatmate/s 38 13.05 8.94
None 1312 13.97 11.47 5.8191, 1414 0.016
My parents 104 16.80 11.90
A person > 60 years in the household None 1231 14.07 11.20 0.7781, 1414 0.378
Yes 185 14.88 13.49
Do you have any chronic illness? None 1087 13.65 11.11 9.9281, 1414 0.002
Yes 329 15.93 12.65
Is there a drug that you use regularly? None 952 13.54 11.04 8.9471, 1414 0.003
Yes 464 15.49 12.37
Do you have any psychiatric illness? None 1320 13.57 11.05 57.241, 1414 0.0001
Yes 96 22.60 14.32
Are there people with chronic diseases in your household? None 1041 13.75 11.07 5.3531, 1414 0.021
Yes 375 15.36 12.64


What is your role in managing patients with COVID-19?
Indirect role 662 14.95 11.81 5.6341, 1414 0.018
Clinician dealing with patients with COVID-19 754 13.50 11.23
None 1300 14.35 11.61 3.4511, 1414 0.063
Clinician dealing with patients without COVID-19 116 12.28 10.30
None 1131 13.52 11.17 18.591, 1414 0.0001
Nurse dealing with patients with COVID-19 285 16.79 12.51
None 1239 14.07 11.61 0.9041, 1414 0.342
Diagnostic issues 177 14.95 10.90
None 1192 14.47 11.55 4.8221, 1414 0.028
Managerial role 224 12.63 11.27
None 1315 14.27 11.53 1.0811, 1414 0.299
Public-health management 101 13.03 11.48
None 1399 14.17 11.54 0.0751, 1414 0.784
Nurse serving to patients non COVID-19 17 14.94 9.97
None 1332 14.08 11.44 1.7891, 1414 0.181
Other 84 15.81 12.77
Do you think you have enough knowledge about COVID-19? No 387 17.44a 11.50 40.572, 1413 0.0001
Yes 692 11.49c 11.06
Unsure 337 15.96a 11.19
Sufficient personal protective equipment at your hospital No 906 15.98 11.49 64.221, 1414 0.0001
Yes 510 10.98 10.87
Is hand sanitizer or liquid soap available in your hospital? No 330 17.46 12.23 35.681, 1414 0.0001
Yes 1086 13.18 11.12
Do you think if you have taken enough precautions to prevent yourself from COVID-19? No 223 17.86 12.21 42.712, 1413 0.0001

BAI: Beck Anxiety Inventory.

: One-Way ANOVA followed by Post-Hoc Tukey HSD test; df1: degrees of freedom for groups, df2: degrees of freedom for error.