Research Article
Medical Students’ Experience of and Reaction to Stress: The Role of Depression and Anxiety
Table 3
Relationship between gender, year of study, and stage of training (clinical and non-clinical) with existence or nonexistence of anxiety.
| | | All participants () | Nonanxiety | Anxiety | (df) | value | | | (%) | (%) | (%) |
| | Gender | | | | | | | Male | 177 (49.4) | 114 (64.4) | 63 (35.6) | 10.3 () | 0.001* | | Female | 181 (50.6) | 86 (47.5) | 95 (52.5) | | Year of study | | | | | | | 1st | 89 (24.9) | 46 (23.0) | 43 (27.2) | 2.19 ()
| .700 | | 2nd | 93 (26.0) | 56 (60.2) | 37 (39.8) | | 3rd | 71 (19.8) | 42 (59.2) | 29 (40.8) | | 4th | 67 (18.7) | 37 (55.2) | 30 (44.8) | | 5th | 38 (10.6) | 19 (50.0) | 19 (50.0) | | Stage of training | | | | | | | Preclinical | 261 (73.3) | 144 (55.2) | 117 (44.8) | .079 () | .779 | | Clinical | 95 (26.7) | 54 (56.8) | 41 (43.2) |
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value less than 0.05 was defined as significant.
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