Prevalence of depression and depressive symptoms among resident physicians a systematic review and meta-analysis

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 314, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 2373-2383

  Mata, Douglas A ^a   Ramos, Marco A ^b   Bansal, Narinder ^c   Khan, Rida ^d   Guille, Constance ^e   Di Angelantonio, Emanuele ^c   Sen, Srijan ^f  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RESIDENT; SCREENING TEST; SELF REPORT; SEX RATIO; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; META ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84949255229     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.15845     Document Type: Article

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