A cross-sectional study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found 28 percent of physicians in training reported having depression or a symptom of depression.
Here's what you need to know.
1. Researchers reviewed studies on the prevalence of depression in resident physicians between 1963 and 2015.
2. The researchers reviewed 31 cross-sectional studies with 9,447 individuals and 23 longitudinal studies with 8,113 individuals. Of those, three studies used clinical interviews and 51 employed self-reporting instruments.
3. They found 28.8 percent of residents were either depressed or had symptoms of depression. Residents have become more depressed over time.
There was no significant variation between the types of studies, or by comparing interns and upper-level residents or surgical and nonsurgical residents.
4. The study was conducted by:
- Douglas A. Mata, MD, of Boston's Harvard Medical School
- Marco A. Ramos, of New Haven-Conn.-based Yale University's Department of Psychiatry
- Narinder Bansal, PhD of England's University of Cambridge
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