Table 4.
Patient-care factors during COVID-19 and physicians’ empathy score.
| Patient-care factors during COVID-19 | No. of physicians |
Empathy score categories |
Empathy score |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ≤105 |
>105 |
p-value | Median (IQR) | p-value | ||
| N | n (%) | n (%) | ||||
| Nature of patient-care duties | ||||||
| Ward duty | 0.225 | 0.317 | ||||
| No | 155 | 88 (56.8) | 67 (43.2) | 102 (88, 115) | ||
| Yes | 232 | 146 (62.9) | 86 (37.1) | 99 (89.5, 110.5) | ||
| ICU duty | 0.752 | 0.272 | ||||
| No | 234 | 140 (59.8) | 94 (40.2) | 101 (90, 113) | ||
| Yes | 153 | 94 (61.4) | 59 (38.6) | 99 (87, 111) | ||
| Out-patient care duty | 0.065 | 0.022a | ||||
| No | 130 | 87 (66.9) | 43 (33.1) | 97 (85, 111) | ||
| Yes | 257 | 147 (57.2) | 110 (42.8) | 102 (91, 113) | ||
| Contact tracing duty | 0.502 | 0.944 | ||||
| No | 278 | 171 (61.5) | 107 (38.5) | 100 (89, 113) | ||
| Yes | 109 | 63 (57.8) | 46 (42.2) | 102 (89, 113) | ||
| Administration duty | 0.289 | 0.203 | ||||
| No | 260 | 162 (62.3) | 98 (37.7) | 99 (89, 112) | ||
| Yes | 127 | 72 (56.7) | 55 (43.3) | 103 (90, 114) | ||
| Laboratory duty | 0.555 | 0.204 | ||||
| No | 334 | 200 (59.9) | 134 (40.1) | 101 (90, 113) | ||
| Yes | 53 | 34 (64.2) | 19 (35.8) | 95 (87, 112) | ||
| No. of patients consulted (per day) | 0.035a | 0.020a | ||||
| < 50 | 297 | 171 (57.6) | 126 (42.4) | 102 (91, 113) | ||
| ≥ 50 | 90 | 63 (70.0) | 27 (30.0) | 95 (86, 110) | ||
| Adequate support of paramedical staff | 0.455 | 0.381 | ||||
| No | 55 | 37 (67.3) | 18 (32.7) | 96 (85, 112) | ||
| Yes | 268 | 157 (58.6) | 111 (41.4) | 101 (89, 113) | ||
| Maybe | 64 | 40 (62.5) | 24 (37.5) | 101 (92, 112.5) | ||
| Adequate support from the administration | 0.141 | 0.262 | ||||
| No | 65 | 44 (67.7) | 21 (32.3) | 98 (87, 112) | ||
| Yes | 243 | 149 (61.3) | 94 (38.7) | 100 (89, 113) | ||
| Maybe | 79 | 41 (51.9) | 38 (48.1) | 104 (93, 113) | ||
a
statistically significant; IQR – interquartile range, ICU – intensive care unit.