SynthesisScientific reports2021
Systematic review and meta-analysis of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation among Ph.D. students.
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69 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Prevalence and severity of mental health problems in early-career researchers: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Nature human behaviour · 2026Pooled it
- Suicidal behaviours and associated factors among Bangladeshi medical students: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2000-2024).BMJ open · 2025Pooled it
- The impact of working in academia on researchers' mental health and well-being: A systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- Psychological Outcomes and Research Engagement Among PhD Students in Medicine and Health Sciences: A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- More than Depression: Doctoral Students' Mental Health in China: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Predicting suicidal ideation in academic communities using machine learning methods: a cross-sectional study.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2026Article
- Self-Efficacy, Intrinsic Motivation, and Self-Regulated Learning as Predictors of Thesis Quality and Process Efficiency Among Undergraduate Students: A PLS-SEM Study.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Article
- Can curriculum-integrated health education improve postgraduate student well-Being? One-group pretest-posttest design.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Supporting Student Mental Health With the Safespace Generative AI Chatbot: Mixed Methods Feasibility Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- What breaks when federal commitments break: comment on Beccia et al.SSM. Mental health · 2026Article
- Researchers' Mental Health and Quality of Life: A Protocol for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Loneliness, Anxiety Symptoms, Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidal Ideation in the All of Us Dataset.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Navigating Academic Identity: A Qualitative Exploration of Graduate Students' Conference Participation Behaviors and Academic Socialization Processes.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The relationship between authenticity and suicidal ideation among medical university students in Iranshahr, southeastern Iran: a cross-sectional study.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- ASPIS Academy: A blueprint for building early-career researcher networks to advance NAM-based risk assessment.NAM journal · 2026Article
- Reconsidering the advisor-advisee relationship: Beyond the dichotomy between rigor and abuse in graduate education.EXCLI journal · 2026Article
- No Thesis, No Future! Exploring the associations between research inaccessibility and suicidal ideation.PloS one · 2026Article
- Supervisor-group culture, age and the stress-burnout mechanism: a qualitative study of Chinese doctoral students.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- An empirical study on the relationship between state anxiety, acute mountain sickness, oxygen saturation, and rating of perceived exertion among graduate students during high-altitude mountaineering.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Comparing guided and unguided forest bathing for graduate student stress management: a pilot study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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Abstract
University administrators and mental health clinicians have raised concerns about depression and anxiety among Ph.D. students, yet no study has systematically synthesized the available evidence in this area. After searching the literature for studies reporting on depression, anxiety, and/or suicidal ideation among Ph.D. students, we included 32 articles. Among 16 studies reporting the prevalence of clinically significant symptoms of depression across 23,469 Ph.D. students, the pooled estimate of the proportion of students with depression was 0.24 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.18-0.31; I
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