Table 1.

Psychological stress scores of nurses in COVID-19-designated hospitals with different demographic characteristics (N=1284)

Variables		N (%)	Psychological stress scores $\overline{\mathrm{x}}$ ± s	95% CI
				Lower bound	Upper bound
Gender	Male	55 (4.3%)	23.25±6.66	21.45	25.06
	Female	1229 (95.7%)	22.89±7.14	22.49	23.29
Age (year)	≤25	193 (15.0%)	23.87±6.75	22.91	24.83
	26–30	359 (28.0%)	23.47±7.21	22.72	24.22
	31–35	315 (24.5%)	22.82±6.87	22.06	23.58
	36–40	188 (14.7%)	22.53±7.13	21.50	23.55
	≥41	229 (17.8%)	21.66±7.45	20.69	22.63
Marital status	Married	902 (70.2%)	22.51±7.24	22.04	22.99
	Unmarried	371 (28.9%)	23.86±6.68	23.18	24.55
	Others	11 (0.9%)	23.36±8.32	17.77	28.95
Years of nursing experience (year)	≤5	344 (26.8%)	23.49±6.72	22.77	24.20
	6–10	324 (25.2%)	23.58±7.27	22.79	24.38
	11–15	258 (20.1%)	22.17±7.28	22.17	23.95
	16–20	153 (11.9%)	21.64±6.64	20.58	22.70
	≥21	205 (16.0%)	21.64±7.42	20.62	22.67
Technical title	Nurses	348 (27.1%)	23.72±6.68	23.01	24.41
	Nurse practitioners	570 (44.4%)	22.97±7.34	22.37	23.58
	Nurse supervisor	312 (24.3%)	22.33±7.18	21.53	23.13
	Associate senior and above	54 (4.2%)	20.41±6.38	18.67	22.15
Weekly working hours	<35	51 (4.0%)	22.65±8.27	20.32	24.97
	35–40	549 (42.7%)	22.02±6.78	21.45	22.59
	>40	684 (53.3%)	23.64±7.21	23.10	24.19
Vaccination with COVID-19	Yes	317 (24.7%)	22.88±6.72	22.14	23.63
	No	967 (75.3%)	22.92±7.25	22.46	23.38
Anxiety symptoms	Yes (≥2)	269 (21.0%)	29.06±5.73	28.37	29.75
	No (<2)	1015 (79.0%)	21.28±6.53	20.88	21.68
Somatisation symptoms	Yes (≥2)	216 (16.8%)	28.69±6.30	27.84	29.54
	No (<2)	1068 (83.2%)	21.74±6.69	21.34	22.14
Compulsion symptoms	Yes (≥2)	521 (40.6%)	26.79±6.05	26.27	27.31
	No (<2)	763 (59.4%)	20.26±6.56	19.80	20.73