A new report suggests that physician mothers are reporting increased rates of moderate to severe anxiety during the COVID-19 crisis. Among them, frontline workers and informal caregivers have the highest rates of anxiety.

A survey was conducted among the Physician Moms Group on Facebook. Among over 1,800 respondents, around 41% of them had scores above the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7) cutoff for moderate to severe anxiety. Additionally, 18% were found to have severe anxiety. Frontline workers and informal caregivers had higher anxiety levels. About 46% of them scored on the higher end of the GAD-7. The data is published in the American Journal of Psychiatry… (Medpage Today)