Mood disorder in women professionals

Suicide rates according to education with a particular focus on physicians in Norway 1960–2000

“…The three most common psychiatric disorders among physicians who commit suicide are depression, drug dependence, and alcoholism (Clayton et al 1980;Roy, 1985). In a study among nurses, smoking and serious alcohol abuse were much more frequent in the suicides than controls (Hawton et al 2002).…”

Major Depression in a Nonclinical Sample

“…Earlier studies focusing on female PhDs and MDs have likewise found very high rates of depres¬ sion. [31][32] Unfortunately, those studies did not assess men as well. While we expected high rates among professional women on the basis of earlier studies, we did not expect a strikingly low rate among highly educated men.…”

The Relationship of Gender to Perceived Stress and Distress in Medical School

“…Ediforial Note: With increasing numbers of women entering training in medicine, the issues addressed in this paper are particularly germane to those considering obstetrics and gynecology. rate of female physicians and medical students is similar to that of male physicians and medical students [2,3], it is estimated to be 3 times that of females in the general population [4-61. The rate of affective disorder in female physicians has also been estimated to be greater than that expected in an age-matched cohort of non-professional controls [7]. The higher rates of suicide and morbidity in female physicians have been explained in several ways: they have greater accessibility to lethal means of suicide than do females in the general population [4]; females have difficulty integrating their traditional roles with those of the physician [8,9]; they encounter hostility in a traditionally male-oriented environment [S, 161; and they lack mentors and support [lo].…”