Suicide Among Health Care Practitioners and Technicians in Colorado: An Epidemiological Study

Mintz, Sasha; Jamison, Ethan C.; Bol, Kirk A.

doi:10.1111/sltb.12449

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“…18 Risk of suicide is already high in healthcare professionals owing to easy means of access to drugs. 19 This will place these students in a highly vulnerable group and warrants prompt action by the Government and health care policymakers.…”

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Perceived Stress among Students in Medical/Dental and Allied Health Universities in Pakistan due to COVID-19 Pandemic

Nizami¹,

Anwar²,

Hayat³

et al. 2021

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Objective: Aim of the study was to explore the perceived stress in students at various medical and dental universities across Pakistan during the COVID 19 pandemic, using a validated scale.Materials and Methods: The study took place at the Institute of Psychiatry (IOP) Rawalpindi Medical University (RMU). Results: About 400 medical students participated countrywide. The final analysis was conducted on 333 participants who completed the survey form. Study participants comprised 69.1% female and 30.9% male students. About 74.5% of the participants represented Punjab province, 1.2% were from Sindh, another 1.2% belonged to Baluchistan, 2.4% were from KPK, and 1.5% were from AJK while 19.2% of them resided in Islamabad. The majority of participants were enrolled in MBBS (78.4%) while the rest were from BDS (3%), Allied Health Sciences (12.9%), Clinical Psychology (3.6%), and Pharm D (2.1%).The mean perceived stress score was 21.34, SD=4.90 suggesting high perceived stress levels. Approximately 4.5% of students perceived low levels of stress, 80.2% perceived moderate stress, whereas 15.3% scored high on the perceived stress scale. Male students had statistically significant (p=0.38) lower stress levels (M=19.99, SD=5.91) as compared to females (M= 21.95, SD= 4.26). Conclusions: Perceived stress level in medical students was alarmingly high and requires urgent intervention by the Medical and Dental Universities for immediate action and policy guidance for early identification and effective management. This can be achieved by delivering targeted e-workshops and evidence-based e-trainings for stress management like psychological first aid and mindfulness techniques.

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Perceived Stress among Students in Medical/Dental and Allied Health Universities in Pakistan due to COVID-19 Pandemic

Nizami¹,

Anwar²,

Hayat³

et al. 2021

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“…Skilled manual and lower-skilled occupations, such as construction workers, [5][6][7][8] cleaners, 7,9 labourers, 10 miners, 11 transport workers 12 and farmers 4,7 are overrepresented in suicide statistics. By contrast, non-manual and higher skilled occupations, excluding health professionals, 13,14 veterinarians 15 and emergency service workers, 16 are typically underrepresented. These findings are supported by a meta-analysis of 34 studies that indicated a stepwise gradient of risk, where the lowest skilled occupations were at the greatest risk of suicide compared with the highest skill occupations.…”

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Occupational class suicide risk: 12-year study of national coronial data

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Background Previous research showed that the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was associated with a widening disparity in suicide rates between lower-class occupations and the highest-class occupations in Australia. There has been no research investigating whether this trend continued post-GFC. Aims This study aimed to investigate suicide rates by occupational class among employed Australians aged 15 years and over, between 2007 and 2018. Method A population-level retrospective mortality study was conducted using data from the National Coronial Information System. Adjusted suicide rates were calculated over the period 2007 to 2018. Negative binomial regression models were used to assess the relationship between occupational class, gender and time, comparing post-GFC years (2010–2012, 2013–2015 and 2016–2018) with GFC years (2007–2009). Results Relative to the GFC period of 2007–2009, a significant reduction in suicide disparity between managers and other occupation groups was only observed among male labourers (rate ratios (RR) = 0.65, 95% CI 0.49–0.86) and male technicians/trades workers (RR = 0.73, 95% CI 0.56–0.96) for the period 2013–2015. Conclusion Skilled manual and lower-skilled occupational classes remain at elevated risk of suicide in Australia. While a decreasing divergence in suicide rates was only observed between labourer and manager occupational classes post-GFC, this trend was not maintained over the later part of the study period (2016–2018). There is a need to further understand the relationship between contextual factors associated with suicide among the employed population, especially during periods of economic downturn.

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