Research Article
The Mental Health Toll: Medical Trainees Living with Disabilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Table 1
Demographic characteristics of the sample.
| | | Interns (n = 68) | Residents (n = 132) | Attendings (n = 147) |
| | Gender | | Female | 44 (64.7%) | 101 (76.5) | 111 (75.5%) | | Male | 24 (35.3%) | 31 (23.5%) | 36 (24.5%) |
| | Age | | Less than 30 | 35 (51.5%) | 10 (7.6%) | 0 (0.0%) | | 31–40 | 33 (48.5%) | 118 (89.4%) | 29 (19.7%) | | 41–50 | 0 (0.0%) | 4 (3.0%) | 56 (38.1%) | | 51–60 | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 41 (27.9%) | | 61 and above | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 21 (14.4%) |
| | Marital status | | Single | 18 (26.5%) | 14 (10.6%) | 9 (6.1%) | | Married | 30 (44.1%) | 100 (75.8%) | 122 (83%) | | In relationship | 19 (27.9%) | 14 (10.6%) | 4 (2.7%) | | Divorced/separated | 1 (1.5%) | 5 (3.8%) | 8 (5.4%) | | Widow/er/other | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 4 (2.8%) |
| | Socioeconomic level | | Below average | 21 (30.9%) | 5 (3.8%) | 2 (1.4%) | | Average | 39 (57.4%) | 13 (9.8%) | 7 (4.8%) | | Above average | 8 (11.8%) | 114 (86.3%) | 138 (93.9%) |
| | Living with a disability | | One or more disabilities | 19 (27.9%) | 26 (19.7%) | 46 (31.3%) | | The disability increases risk for COVID-19 complications | 13 (19.11%) | 17 (12.87%) | 38 (25.85%) |
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