Depression and anxiety symptoms among operating room nurses: Prevalence and correlations with occupational environmental factors

Table 1 Anxiety and depression scores among operating room nurses with different characteristics, mean ± SD

Characteristics	n	SAS score	SDS score	t/F value1	P value1	t/F value2	P value2
Gender				0.936	0.351	2.045	0.043
Male	27	47.44 ± 11.97	50.96 ± 10.94
Female	124	49.58 ± 10.47	55.79 ± 11.15
Age				7.151	< 0.001	3.174	0.026
< 26 years old	26	47.65 ± 9.23	53.81 ± 10.18
26-36 years old	78	52.55 ± 9.88	57.27 ± 11.91
37-46 years old	37	45.62 ± 10.96	52.70 ± 9.98
> 46 years old	10	40.30 ± 11.04	47.80 ± 8.65
Educational background				1.300	0.276	0.213	0.809
Junior college	9	48.67 ± 12.06	52.78 ± 15.21
Undergraduate	138	49.48 ± 10.66	55.11 ± 10.96
Master’s degree or higher	4	40.75 ± 9.32	53.50 ± 13.67
Marital status				0.458	0.648	0.298	0.766
Unmarried	28	48.36 ± 10.66	55.50 ± 10.17
Married/divorced	123	49.39 ± 10.79	54.80 ± 11.50
Number of children				0.466	0.706	0.362	0.781
0	32	47.69 ± 10.65	55.41 ± 9.74
1	82	50.09 ± 10.95	55.07 ± 11.76
2	33	48.36 ± 9.89	54.79 ± 11.52
3	4	50.00 ± 16.21	49.25 ± 11.64
Operating room tenure				15.169	< 0.001	7.465	< 0.001
1-5 years	44	45.93 ± 9.19	52.55 ± 9.82
6-10 years	45	55.42 ± 8.61	59.84 ± 10.85
11-15 years	37	52.05 ± 9.16	57.30 ± 11.27
16-20 years	18	41.39 ± 10.12	46.67 ± 8.90
≥ 21 years	7	34.71 ± 9.76	47.00 ± 8.76
Professional title				7.841	< 0.001	3.202	0.025
Nurse	35	50.57 ± 9.17	53.86 ± 9.29
Senior Nurse	67	47.48 ± 9.95	54.69 ± 11.18
Nurse-in-Charge	40	53.63 ± 11.21	58.23 ± 12.56
Associate chief nurse and above	9	37.00 ± 8.89	46.22 ± 7.34
Job position				13.253	< 0.001	4.910	0.003
Scrub Nurse	42	56.36 ± 7.79	59.10 ± 10.61
Circulating Nurse	68	48.41 ± 10.20	55.22 ± 10.46
Post-Anesthesia Care Unit Nurse	11	43.27 ± 12.08	52.18 ± 13.81
Nurse with Administrative Responsibilities	30	43.13 ± 9.66	49.43 ± 10.75

¹Values of t/F and P values represent the results of comparisons of anxiety scores among operating room nurses with different characteristics.

²Values of t/F and P values represent the results of comparisons of depression scores among operating room nurses with different characteristics.

SAS: Self-rating Anxiety Scale; SDS: Self-rating Depression Scale.