The vast toll that doctoral studies can take on mental health indicates that psychological health issues are systemic and have been plaguing academia for many decades.
The longer PhD candidates were enrolled, the more they needed to access mental health services, with a 40% increase in medication prescriptions by the fifth year.
Very few studies have looked at objective measures of mental health, highlighting the gaps in understanding the full extent of the mental health crisis in academia.
Using Swedish administrative records allowed researchers to directly assess the impact of doctoral studies on PhD students' mental health, revealing significant mental health service use.
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