Exhaustion disorder: scoping review of research on a recently introduced stress-related diagnosis

ABSTRACT:

Background

Symptoms related to chronic stress are prevalent and entail high societal costs, yet there is a lack of international consensus regarding diagnostics and treatment. A new stress-related diagnosis, exhaustion disorder, was introduced into the Swedish version of ICD-10 in 2005. Since then, use of the diagnosis has increased rapidly.

Aims

To create the first comprehensive synthesis of research on exhaustion disorder to report on the current state of knowledge. Preregistration: Open Science Framework (osf.io), doi 10.17605/OSF.IO/VFDKW.

Method

A PRISMA-guided scoping review of all empirical studies of exhaustion disorder was conducted. Searches were run in the MEDLINE, PsycInfo and Web of Science databases. Data were systematically charted and thematically

SUBMITTER: Lindsater E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9438479 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature