Medical Xpress July 25, 2024
More than 18% of physicians reported post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a review and meta-analysis published online July 24 in JAMA Network Open.
Mihir Kamra, from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and colleagues examined the prevalence of PTSD among physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic and examined variations based on demographic and other variables in a systematic review and meta-analysis. Data were included from 57 studies with 28,965 participants in 25 countries.
The researchers observed an estimated pooled prevalence of 18.3% for PTSD. In 14 studies that reported sex, female physicians were more likely to develop PTSD (odds ratio, 1.93). Younger physicians reported less PTSD in the 10 studies reporting...
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