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Why do doctors seek peer support? A qualitative interview study.
Ingrid Marie Taxt Horne1, Frode Veggeland2, Fredrik Bååthe3,4
1Modum Bad Research Institute, Vikersund, Norway ingrid.horne@modum-bad.no.
BMJ Open
|October 22, 2021
Summary
Doctors seek peer support for various reasons, including stress and work issues, with motivations influenced by enabling factors rather than symptom severity. Understanding these diverse needs is key to optimizing support services.
Area of Science:
- Medical and Health Sciences
- Psychology
- Sociology
Background:
- Physician well-being is crucial for healthcare quality.
- Barriers and facilitators to help-seeking among doctors remain under-researched.
- Organized peer-support services offer a potential avenue for physician support.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore doctors' experiences and reflections on seeking help from a peer-support service.
- To identify the triggers, motivations, and expectations associated with physician help-seeking behavior.
- To understand the barriers and facilitators influencing doctors' engagement with peer support.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 doctors.
- Interviews were audiotaped and analyzed using systematic text condensation.
- Participants were selected to ensure variation in gender, demographics, and medical specialty.
Main Results:
- Three categories of help-seeking were identified: seeking advice, fear of not coping, and seeking a way back to work.
- Motivations for seeking help were more closely linked to enabling/restricting factors than symptom severity.
- Doctors' expectations of the peer-support service varied widely.
Conclusions:
- Diverse situations, needs, motivations, and constraints influence doctors' help-seeking behavior.
- Peer support services need tailoring to meet the specific needs of doctors.
- Further research is needed to evaluate the impact and optimize physician peer-support services.
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