Table 1 Descriptive statistics portraying differing anxiety levels of 7116 medical students across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia according to the GAD-7-scale, sub-grouped by medical class year and baseline characteristics of anti-anxiety medication users and non-users in November 2020
Item | Anxiety Level | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Normal | Mild | Moderate | Severe | Total | |||||
N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | |
Medical Year: | |||||||||
 Preparatory Year | 126 | 28.1 | 137 | 30.5 | 110 | 24.5 | 76 | 16.9 | 449 |
 1st Year | 233 | 21.4 | 333 | 30.6 | 320 | 29.4 | 203 | 18.6 | 1089 |
 2nd Year | 253 | 23.9 | 338 | 31.9 | 283 | 26.7 | 185 | 17.5 | 1059 |
 3rd Year | 315 | 25.8 | 368 | 30.2 | 310 | 25.4 | 227 | 18.6 | 1220 |
 4th Clinical Year | 391 | 30.3 | 427 | 33.0 | 283 | 21.9 | 191 | 14.8 | 1292 |
 5th Clinical Year | 506 | 34.6 | 451 | 30.9 | 312 | 21.4 | 192 | 13.1 | 1461 |
 Internship Year | 178 | 32.6 | 180 | 33.0 | 122 | 22.3 | 66 | 12.1 | 546 |
 Total | 2002 | 28.1 | 2234 | 31.4 | 1740 | 24.5 | 1140 | 16.0 | 7116 |
Have you ever used antianxiety medications at any time during your college years? | |||||||||
 No | 1863 | 29.8 | 2017 | 32.3 | 1454 | 23.3 | 914 | 14.6 | 6248 |
 Yes | 139 | 16.0 | 217 | 25.0 | 286 | 32.9 | 226 | 26.0 | 868 |
 Total | 2002 | 28.1 | 2234 | 31.4 | 1740 | 24.5 | 1140 | 16.0 | 7116 |
Which antianxiety medication have you used?a | |||||||||
 Propranolol | 75 | 19.0 | 98 | 24.9 | 125 | 31.7 | 96 | 24.4 | 394 |
 Benzodiazepine | 41 | 18.7 | 53 | 24.2 | 74 | 33.8 | 51 | 23.3 | 219 |
 Antidepressants | 99 | 30.0 | 102 | 30.9 | 86 | 26.1 | 43 | 13.0 | 330 |
 Pregabalin | 21 | 22.1 | 34 | 35.8 | 22 | 23.2 | 18 | 18.9 | 95 |