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Doctors accessing mental-health services: an exploratory study.

Josephine Stanton¹, Patte Randal

¹Child and Family Unit, Auckland Healthcare, Auckland Mail Centre, Auckland, New Zealand. josephines@adhb.govt.nz

|October 25, 2011

Summary

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Doctors face challenges accessing mental healthcare due to unrealistic expectations and poor self-care. Improving peer support and non-doctor contacts

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Area of Science:

Medical Sociology
Psychiatry
Healthcare Professional Well-being

Background:

Doctors often experience significant work-related stressors.
Self-care and help-seeking behaviors among physicians can be impeded by professional culture.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore doctors' and their contacts' perspectives on accessing mental healthcare.
To identify barriers and facilitators to mental healthcare utilization by physicians.

Main Methods:

Qualitative study employing semistructured interviews.
Grounded Theory analysis of data from doctors, their personal contacts, and psychiatrists.

Main Results:

Physicians reported unrealistic expectations, poor self-care, and minimization of mental health issues.
Doctor contacts struggled to effectively support colleagues needing mental healthcare.
Non-doctor contacts identified concerns but faced challenges facilitating access to services.

Conclusions:

Addressing minimization/denial and supporting physician functioning is crucial.
Enhancing doctor-to-doctor mental health conversations is needed.
Leveraging non-doctor support networks can improve physician access to care.