Suicide among physicians and health-care workers: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Medical-related professions are at high suicide risk. However, data are contradictory and comparisons were not made between gender, occupation and specialties, epochs of times. Thus, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis on suicide risk among health-care workers. METHOD:The PubMed, Cochrane Library, Science Direct and Embase databases were searched without language restriction on April 2019, with the following keywords: suicide* AND (« health care worker* » OR physician* OR nurse*). When possible, we stratified results by gender, countries, time, and specialties. Estimates were pooled using random-effect meta-analysis. Differences by study-level characteristics were estimated using stratified meta-analysis and meta-regression. Suicides, suicidal attempts, and suicid

SUBMITTER: Dutheil F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6907772 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature