Former lab members Dr. Carly Busch, Dr. Logan Gin, and Nicholas Wiesenthal joined Katey in authoring a paper examining what is behind the graduate mental health crisis in science that was published this week in Nature Biotechnology.
The lab surveyed over 2000 science graduate students with depression and/or anxiety from 142 US institutions found that research responsibilities have a considerably greater impact on mental health than teaching duties. Additionally, the impacts of research and teaching on mental health are not equal:
Women, nonbinary, and financially unstable students reported disproportionate negative effects of research and teaching on their mental health compared to their respective counterparts. Finally, students with more severe anxiety and depression were disproportionately likely to contemplate leaving their graduate program compared to students with less severe anxiety and depression.
Read it here! Behind the graduate mental health crisis in science
This work was highlighted by ASU News.
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