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Suicide and self-harm among physicians in Ontario, Canada
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What is this research about?
Previous studies from the United States, Europe and Australia, reported higher country-level rates of suicide in physicians compared to non-physicians. Several risk factors have been identified to be associated with suicide among physicians in Canada such as high levels of psychosocial stress, burnout, mental health, substance disorders, and recently the COVID epidemic. A single previous study from Quebec identified 36 physician suicides between 1992 to 2009. Whether the suicide risk and self-harm, a behaviour that is strongly predictive of suicide, is higher among physicians compared to non-physicians in a contemporary Canadian cohort remains unknown.
In this study, researchers evaluated the risk of suicide and self-harm among physicians compared to non-physicians in Ontario, Canada.
The research snapshot can be found in English here and French here