Work-related impacts on doctors' mental health: a qualitative study exploring organisational and systems-level risk factors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Protecting doctors' mental health has typically focused on individuals, rather than addressing organisational and structural-level factors in the work environment.

Objectives

This study uses the socioecological model (SEM) to illuminate and explore how these broader factors inform the mental health of individual doctors.

Design

Semi-structured interviews (20-25 hours) and ethnographic observations (90 hours) involving work shadowing doctors (n=14).

Participants

Doctors representing various career stages, specialty areas, genders and cultural backgrounds.

Setting

Three specialties in a public South Australian hospital. Thematic analysis revealed work-related risk factors for poor mental health.

Results

The SEM framework was used to analy

SUBMITTER: Lunnay B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11580307 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature