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Work-related impacts on doctors' mental health: a qualitative study exploring organisational and systems-level risk factors.
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Abstract
backgroundProtecting doctors' mental health has typically focused on individuals, rather than addressing organisational and structural-level factors in the work environment.
objectivesThis study uses the socioecological model (SEM) to illuminate and explore how these broader factors inform the mental health of individual doctors.
designSemi-structured interviews (20-25 hours) and ethnographic observations (90 hours) involving work shadowing doctors (n=14).
participantsDoctors representing various career stages, specialty areas, genders and cultural backgrounds.
settingThree specialties in a public South Australian hospital. Thematic analysis revealed work-related risk factors for poor mental health.
resultsThe SEM framework was used to analyse the work environment's impact on doctors' mental health. The analysis identified how the layers interconnect to influence risk factors for individual doctors.
conclusionsThis study highlights how doctors experience layers of interconnected factors that compromise their mental health but over which they have very little control. Interventions must therefore address these issues at organisational and systemic levels, for which starting points evident within our data are identified.
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