06 March 2026 : Clinical Research
Determinants of Stress Coping Strategies of Doctors in Poland's Silesian Voivodeship
Ewa Marcisz-Dyla
ABCDEF 1*, Józefa Dąbek ABCD 2
DOI: 10.12659/MSM.951073
Med Sci Monit 2026; 32:e951073
Table 1 General characteristics of the participants.
| N=655 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Parameter | Count and percent | ||
| n | % | ||
| Sex | Female | 401 | 61.2 |
| Male | 254 | 38.8 | |
| Specialization | Surgical(anesthesiology and intensive care, general surgery, pediatric surgery, vascular surgery, plastic surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, invasive cardiology, emergency medicine, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, orthopedics and traumatology, otolaryngology, urology) | 266 | 40.6 |
| Non-surgical(allergology, lung diseases, internal medicine, dermatology, diabetology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, geriatrics, hematology, cardiology, nuclear medicine, occupational medicine, family medicine, nephrology, neonatology, neurology, oncology, pathomorphology, pediatrics, psychiatry, radiology and diagnostic imaging, radiation oncology, medical rehabilitation, rheumatology) | 389 | 59.4 | |
| Sex and specialization | Female physicians with a surgical specialization | 134 | 20.5 |
| Female physcians with a non-surgical specialization | 267 | 40.8 | |
| Male physicians with a surgical specialization | 132 | 20.2 | |
| Male physicians with a non-surgical specialization | 122 | 18.6 | |
| Marital status | Single | 179 | 27.3 |
| Married | 433 | 66.1 | |
| Widowed | 9 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 34 | 5.2 | |
| On-call duty | Yes/no | 517/138 | 78.9/21.1 |
| Side job | Yes/no | 474/181 | 72.4/27.6 |
| n – number. | |||