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The research, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, was conducted as part of a study to establish a more accurate prevalence of mental disorders within the NHS workforce. The study also found that 1-in-5 HCWs met the threshold for diagnosable illnesses like depression and anxiety.

Researchers recruited participants from the NHS CHECK study, the UK's largest survey of the mental health and wellbeing of all NHS staff during COVID-19. Over 23,000 participants completed commonly used self-report measures which look for symptoms of common mental disorders (CMDs) like depression and anxiety as well as PTSD. This particular study reported on diagnostic interviews with two smaller groups of HCWs, which were broadly representative of NHS staff overall in terms of ethnicity, age, sex and clinical role. 243 participants were surveyed to establish the prevalence of CMDs, while a further 94 helped to establish PTSD prevalence.

While there have been many studies of the mental health of HCWs, especially since the pandemic, the vast majority of these have relied on self-reported screening tools that often over-estimate prevalence of mental disorder. Most of these studies have reported highly elevated, and highly varied, rates of CMD and PTSD. In this study, trained professionals carried out interviews and assessed participants against diagnostic criteria which are considered the gold standard for accurately diagnosing mental disorders.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(22)00375-3/fulltext

I'd love to see a study like this done on the construction industry one day. Nobody has any idea how toxic most occupations are

Aaaaaaanf on top of that doctors are paid appallingly. With 90k+ debt, and have to pay £1000s in professional exams to progress. Good good.

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I agree, everyone is getting sick of hearing how hard the medical professionals have it. Everyone has it hard. Construction, mining, fishing, farming, how about we check the CMD and PTSD for every occupation where if the weather doesn’t go the right way or God is just isn’t smiling on you that month then your family doesn’t eat.

One more reason to avoid universal healthcare. It just collapses under its own weight when voters inevitably decide to defund it.

Look at this crab in the bucket

same here in america. only no ability for care given, nothing to support us, and a complete disregard for the elevated stress and workloads placed upon us. not only that, anything resulting from the workload (ptsd or physical injuries) are not efficiently covered, nor cared for. Being “reimbursed” for care is a nightmare, especially when you’re suffering. case managers barely do the bare minimum, you’re forced to follow up with your own care, insurance, meds, payments, disputes, etc, while working.

Nearly everyone in the UK supports the NHS and would pay more taxes to fund it further. No one wants to move away from Universal Healthcare. You'd have to be insane to consider it.

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Voters will never decide to defund it.

But they will never get that option.

They will get to vote for someone who wants to take back control of borders, or someone who wants “tighter fiscal control” or lower taxes.

That someone is going to defund universal healthcare. That someone isn’t going to take back control, and has no intention of getting fiscal control.

It’s the way they work.

If that’s true then why do they keep voting for politicians who defund it?

I think you need to re-read my comment.

If you vote for someone who wants to defund healthcare, then obviously it wasn’t a dealbreaker for you. I don’t accept your narrative that elected officials don’t represent the people who voted for them.

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helpers syndrome is something totally new in 2022...heureka!

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But.. this is literally proving that working in the NHS IS more traumatic than the average job.

I get what you're saying, some other industries are also incredibly toxic, and there might be some out there even more so than healthcare. But, this is evidence everyone DOES NOT have it so hard.

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Oh plenty of people have researched consteuction. Highest consumption of drugs, second only to service industry (restaurants).

>Nearly everyone in the UK supports the NHS and would pay more taxes to fund it further. No one wants to move away from Universal Healthcare.

Except the exact opposite is happening, out of economic necessity. Because it doesn’t work.

>You'd have to be insane to consider it.

People are insane because they don’t want to be forced to pay for terrible underfunded government-run healthcare that they might not even use?

You're clearly not ftom the UK if that is your answer. Jog on.