Medscape May 25, 2022
INDIANAPOLIS — Much of what we know about depression, anxiety, and suicide among healthcare professionals comes from investigations into the mental health of physicians and medical students. Now, new research is shedding light on how common these mental health conditions are among physician assistants (PAs) and PA students, Talia Sierra, PA-C, DMSc, told attendees in a session at the American Academy of Physician Associates 2022 annual meeting.
Sierra and co-presenter Heidi Posey, PA-C, both professors in the PA program at Idaho State University, surveyed PA students and practicing PAs about their experiences with depression, anxiety, and suicide.
They found that PAs and student PAs reported feelings of depression, anxiety, or thoughts of suicide at about the same rate physicians and...
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