Table 1.
Demographic characteristics, mental health, and burnout categorized by the level of empathy
| Variables | Total (n = 466) |
Level of empathy | Chi2 P-value |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| < 45 | ≥ 45 | |||
| (n = 266) | (n = 200) | |||
| Gender | < 0.001 | |||
| Male | 202 (43.3) | 134 (50.4) | 68 (34.3) | |
| Female | 262 (56.2) | 132 (49.6) | 130 (65.7) | |
| No answer | 2 (0.4) | |||
| Religion | 0.521 | |||
| Buddhism | 366 (78.5) | 211 (86.5) | 155 (83.8) | |
| Islam, Christianity, others | 63 (13.5) | 33 (13.5) | 30 (16.2) | |
| No answer | 37 (7.9) | |||
| Physical illness | 0.994 | |||
| No | 396 (85.0) | 226 (85.0) | 170 (85.4) | |
| Yes | 69 (14.8) | 40 (15.0) | 29 (14.6) | |
| No answer | 1 (0.2) | |||
| Psychiatric illness | 0.371 | |||
| No | 420 (90.1) | 241 (92.3) | 179 (89.5) | |
| Yes | 41 (8.8) | 20 (7.7) | 21 (10.5) | |
| No answer | 5 (1.1) | |||
| Alcohol consumption | 0.191 | |||
| No | 311 (66.7) | 184 (69.7) | 127 (63.5) | |
| Yes | 153 (32.8) | 80 (30.3) | 73 (36.5) | |
| No answer | 2 (0.4) | |||
| Substance use | 1a | |||
| No | 459 (98.5) | 262 (99.2) | 197 (99.5) | |
| Yes | 3 (0.6) | 2 (0.8) | 1 (0.5) | |
| No answer | 4 (0.9) | |||
| Specialty preference | 0.195 | |||
| General/not specified | 158 (33.9) | 98 (36.8) | 60 (30.0) | |
| Major | 200 (42.9) | 113 (42.5) | 87 (43.5) | |
| Minor | 108 (23.2) | 55 (20.7) | 53 (26.5) | |
| Clinical year | 0.039 | |||
| 4th Year | 152 (32.6) | 75 (28.2) | 77 (38.5) | |
| 5th Year | 160 (34.3) | 93 (35.0) | 67 (33.5) | |
| 6th Year | 154 (33.0) | 98 (36.8) | 56 (28.0) | |
| Mental health | < 0.001 | |||
| Poor | 138 (29.6) | 103 (38.7) | 35 (17.5) | |
| Fair | 237 (50.9) | 140 (52.6) | 97 (48.5) | |
| Good | 91 (19.5) | 23 (8.6) | 68 (34.0) | |
| Burnout | ||||
| Emotional exhaustion | 0.043 | |||
| Low | 52 (11.2) | 23 (8.7) | 29 (14.5) | |
| Moderate | 115 (24.7) | 60 (22.8) | 55 (27.5) | |
| High | 296 (63.5) | 180 (68.4) | 116 (58.0) | |
| No answer | 3 (0.6) | |||
| Depersonalization | < 0.001 | |||
| Low | 143 (30.7) | 59 (22.4) | 84 (42.0) | |
| Moderate | 135 (29.0) | 83 (31.6) | 52 (26.0) | |
| High | 185 (39.7) | 121 (46.0) | 64 (32.0) | |
| No answer | 3 (0.6) | |||
| Personal accomplishment | 0.077 | |||
| Low | – | – | – | |
| Moderate | 13 (2.8) | 11 (4.2) | 2 (1.0) | |
| High | 450 (96.6) | 252 (95.8) | 198 (99.0) | |
| No answer | 3 (0.6) | |||
| Having stress within 1 year | 0.253 | |||
| No | 21 (4.5) | 15 (5.7) | 6 (3.0) | |
| Yes | 444 (95.5) | 250 (94.3) | 194 (97.0) | |
| No answer | 1 (0.2) | |||
aFisher's exact test