Letters
Stress in NHS consultants
BMJ 1995; 310 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.310.6978.534 (Published 25 February 1995) Cite this as: BMJ 1995;310:534
- Harriet Blenkin,
- Ian Deary,
- Andrew Sadler,
- Raymond Agius
- Postgraduate student Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5 8AF
- Reader Research associate Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ
- Senior lecturer Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh EH8 9AG
EDITOR,—Richard P Caplan highlights the fact that few studies have examined stress and psychological symptoms in senior doctors.1 We conducted a cross sectional survey of 500 randomly selected NHS consultants in Scotland, of whom 375 (75%) responded; this response rate compares well with the 77% response to the postal questionnaire that Caplan sent to consultants. We applied a wider range of questionnaires2 but report here our results with the general health …
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