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Table 2 Subgroup analysis

From: The prevalence of stress, anxiety and depression within front-line healthcare workers caring for COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-regression

Hospital medical staff

Type of disorder

Number of articles

Sample size

I2

Begg and Mazumdar

Prevalence (95% CI)

Hospital staff (non-physicians and nurses)

Depression

15

10,658

99.1

0.317

20.6 (95% CI 13.1–30.9)

Anxiety

17

11,062

95.5

0.258

27 (95% CI 20.1–35.3)

Stress

8

3551

99

0.180

36.4 (95% CI 18.3–59.5)

Physicians

Depression

2

643

4.2

–

40.4 (95% CI 36.4–44.5)

Anxiety

2

643

90.7

–

19.8 (95% CI 7.1–44.3)

Stress

1

268

0

–

93.7 (95% CI 90–96)

Nurses

Depression

4

8063

99.2

0.667

28 (95% CI 16–44.2)

Anxiety

4

8063

96.5

0.514

22.8 (95% CI 17–29.8)