[Psychiatric and somatic morbidity among Hungarian psychiatrists] (original) (raw)

Psychiatria Hungarica : A Magyar Pszichiátriai Társaság tudományos folyóirata, 2010

Abstract

A growing body of evidence in the international literature suggests that the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity including suicide is high among psychiatrists. Based on these data, we hypothesised that the prevalence of psychiatric and somatic morbidity is higher among psychiatrists in Hungary compared to the other graduate population. Aims. To assess the psychiatric and somatic health status of psychiatrists in Hungary. Data for this epidemiological study were collected from 160 female and 60 male psychiatrists using questionnaires. 1,754 white collar female and male workers from a representative survey (Hungarostudy 2002) and 407 representative physicians served as controls. We found that the prevalence of chronic somatic morbidity among both female and male physicians was significantly higher than that in the respective control groups. The prevalence of malignancies, diabetes, renal impairment, depression, hypertension, myocardial infarction and cardiovascular diseases, other inf...

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