Psychological Health Among Gastroenterologists During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Survey

Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2021 Apr;19(4):836-838.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2020.11.043. Epub 2020 Dec 3.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic poses unprecedented and unique challenges to gastroenterologists eager to maintain clinical practice, patients' health, and their own physical/mental well-being. We aimed to estimate the prevalence and critical determinants of psychological distress in gastroenterologists during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Publication types

  • Multicenter Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19 / complications
  • COVID-19 / epidemiology*
  • COVID-19 / psychology
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Gastroenterologists / psychology*
  • Humans
  • Mental Health*
  • Pandemics
  • Prevalence
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Stress, Psychological / epidemiology*
  • Stress, Psychological / etiology
  • Stress, Psychological / psychology
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • United States / epidemiology