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

Frédéric Dutheil, Claire Aubert, Bruno Pereira, Michael Dambrun, Fares Moustafa, Martial Mermillod, Julien S Baker, Marion Trousselard, François-Xavier Lesage and Valentin Navel

PLOS ONE, 2019, vol. 14, issue 12, 1-28

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 suicidal ideation were retrieved from national or local specific registers or case records. In addition, suicide attempts and suicidal ideation were also retrieved from questionnaires (paper or internet). Results: The overall SMR for suicide in physicians was 1.44 (95CI 1.16, 1.72) with an important heterogeneity (I2 = 93.9%, p

Date: 2019
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