Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Mental health in medical and biomedical doctoral students during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and racial protests

Office of Medical Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, United States
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, United States

Sep 6, 2022

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.69960

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Allison Schad

Rebekah L Layton

Debra Ragland

Jeanette Gowen Cook

(2022)
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Mental health in medical and biomedical doctoral students during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and racial protests

eLife 11:e69960.

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.69960
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Logistic regression summary tables and correlation scatterplot matrix.

Logistic regression tables show main effects and interactions for each of the primary factors (Program, Year, HE-Gender, HE-Race/Ethnicity) across four measures of mental health (Depression, …

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Levels of depression, anxiety, problems with drug use, hazardous alcohol use and suicidal ideation based on type of training and historically excluded status linked to race/ethnicity.

(A) Percentages of medical (MD) and biomedical doctoral (PhD) students reporting the presence (dark grey) or absence (light grey) of symptoms/problematic use pertaining to depression, anxiety, …

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Levels of depression, anxiety, problems with drug use, hazardous alcohol use, and suicidal ideation for historically excluded/non-excluded populations based on gender and sexual orientation.

Graphical representation displaying the percentages for each of the two primary factors in this figure (Gender and Sexual Orientation) across the four measures of mental health and three measures of …

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Table 1

Coding of the four measures of mental health used in the analyses.

Each measure of mental health (depression, anxiety, hazardous alcohol use, and problems related to substance use) was examined and coded according to its respective validated scale (PHQ-9, GAD-7, …

Measures	No Symptoms(Coded as 0)	Any Symptoms(Coded as 1)
	Interim Recoded as 0	Interim Recoded as 1	Interim Recoded as 2	Interim Recoded as 3	Interim Recoded as 4
PHQ-9	1–4: Minimal or No Depression	5–9: Mild Depression	10–14: Moderate Depression	15–19: Moderately Severe Depression	20–27: Severe Depression
GAD-7	0–4: Minimal Anxiety	5–9: Mild Anxiety	10–14: Moderate Anxiety	15–21: Severe Anxiety
AUDIT	0–7: Low Risk	8–15: Hazardous	16–19: Harmful	20+: Possible Dependence
DAST-10	0: No problems	1–2: Low Problems	3–5: Moderate Problems	6–8: Substantial Problems	9–10: Severe Problems