Prevalence of perceived stress and associations to symptoms of exhaustion, depression and anxiety in a working age population seeking primary care - an observational study

Table 2 Distribution of participants with self-rated symptoms of burnout/exhaustion and/or depression/anxiety (D/A), within stress levels two and three respectively

	Stress level 2				Stress level 3				Total
	n = 108				n = 164				n = 272
	Symptoms of D³/A⁴				Symptoms of D³/A⁴				Symptoms of D³/A⁴
Symptoms of burnout¹/exhaustion²	No		Yes		No		Yes		No		Yes
	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n
No	31	34	10	11	5	8	4	7	15 ^*	42	7	18
Yes	18	20	40**	43	5	8	86**	141	10	28	68 ^*	184
Total within each stress level	50	54	50	54	9	16	91	148	26	70	74	202

*Difference between patients in the total study population reporting symptoms of depression/anxiety and coexisting burnout/depression and patients reporting neither of these symptoms.(p<0,01).
**Difference between proportion reporting symptoms of depression/anxiety and coexisting symptoms of burnout/exhaustion between stress level 2 (40%) and stress level 3 (86%). (p=<0.01).
¹Shirom-Melamed Burnout Questionnaire (SMBQ) Mean total score ≥ 3,75.
²Self rated Exhaustion Disorder (s-ED) Moderate to severe score.
³Hospital Depression scale (HAD-D) >7.
⁴Hospital Anxiety scale (HAD-A) >7.

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