| FACTOR | ASSOCIATION |
| Physical health | Y |
| Unhappy childhood | Y |
| Stress at work* | Y |
| Amount of call | - |
| Lifestyle† | - |
| Age | - |
| Income | - |
| Season of year | - |
| Level of training | Y/N |
| Hours worked | Y/N |
| Amount of sleep/sleep deprivation | Y/N |
| Difficulty/type of rotation | Y/N |
| Previous history of depression | Y/N |
| Family history of mental illness | Y/N |
| Negative religious coping‡ | Y/N |
| Stressors outside work | Y/N |
| Gender | Y/N |
| Ethnicity | Y/N |
| Marital status/social support | Y/N |
| Financial debt | Y/N |
| Y | All studies found this factor to be associated with depression |
| N | No studies found this factor to be associated with depression |
| Y/N | Some studies found an association with depression, some studies failed to find an association with depression |