The Health Status of Emergency Physicians at Salmaniya Medical Complex Kingdom of Bahrain: A Cross-Sectional Study

Materials and Methods Study Design A cross-sectional descriptive study with online data collection through an anonymous self-administered questionnaire. Settings: Utilizing the Google Forms platform, electronic data collection was carried out over a period of 10 days, starting on the 9th of March 2024. The questionnaire included 3 items (1) physician's demographic data; age, sex, marital status, nationality, job position, years of experience, and hours of work per week; (2) Emergency physicians' medical characteristics; general health status, whether they had their general practitioner (GP) or family physician if they have seen their GP, family physician or psychiatrist in the past 12 months if they have been hospitalized or off work days due to illness in the past 12 months (3) Emergency physicians' medical conditions within the last 5 years. The association of levels of various characteristics with the self-reported health status of EPs was tested statistically using the Chi-square test.