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Primary care physicians with higher proportions of recorded mental health diagnoses generate significantly lower panel member costs, and their patients may be less likely to be admitted for avoidable hospitalization conditions.
Mental health concerns are relatively common among Canadian physicians.
Physicians with high mental health complaints were 3.5- for fatigue, 5.6- for PTSD, 7.1- for anxiety, 9.5- for burnout, 10.8- for depression and 13.6-fold for stress more likely to report their work ability as insufficient. The prevalence of common mental disorders among hospital physicians varied from 6% for burnout to 42% for work-related fatigue.
As the largest and most widely distributed of primary care physicians, family physicians have an important role in providing mental health care, especially in rural and underserved areas.
Having family physicians treat mental health disorders may lead to greater patient satisfaction, improved chronic care management, and a positive impact on quality of care.
Community physicians require primary mental health care support to serve the mental health concerns of young children age 0-6.
More work should be done to explore the factors related to physicians’ self-ratings of mental health status and what that means to them.
Work-satisfaction with current income, social prestige and professional relations are important correlates of mental health among primary care physicians, as well as emotional exhaustion.
The risk of being stigmatized may cause depressed physicians to alter their approach to seeking mental health care, including seeking care outside their medical community and self-prescribing antidepressants.
Family physicians play a role in adolescent mental health care.