Junior doctors' mental health and coronavirus disease safety concerns.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This article aims to assess whether caring for COVID-19 patients impacted junior doctors' COVID-19-related anxieties, general anxiety and depression, and the relative impact of depression, general anxiety and specific COVID-19 anxiety on work and social functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Methods

Recruitment occurred between June and August 2020 in New South Wales, Australia. Demographic information, symptoms of depression (PHQ-9), generalised anxiety (GAD-7), and COVID-19-related anxieties around infections, help-seeking behaviours, and work and social functioning (WSAS) were collected.

Results

About one third (n=73, 33%) had cared for a patient with overt or covert COVID-19 in the previous month. However, the extent of COVID-19-related anxiet

SUBMITTER: Bartholomew A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9968570 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature