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Nearly 1 in 5 physicians experienced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a review and meta-analysis.

In an analysis of 57 studies, the estimated pooled prevalence of PTSD among physicians was 18.3 percent, a figure more than 3 times higher than the general population, Manish Sood, MD, of Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Canada, and colleagues reported in JAMA Network Open.

Female physicians were almost twice as likely as male physicians to develop PTSD (OR 1.93, 95 percent CI 1.56-2.39, P<0.001), and medical trainees were more likely to develop PTSD than attendings (OR 1.33, 95 percent CI 1.12-1.57), they found. When analyzed by specialty, PTSD was most common among family medicine physicians (31.2 percent), followed by emergency medicine physicians (23.4 percent), they reported. Head over to MedPage Today to read more about it.