Exploring the Mental Health Challenges of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Professionals: A Comprehensive Review and Meta-Analysis

Burnout and depression are global problems affecting healthcare providers, especially those working in stressful departments such as emergency (EDs) critical care units (CCUs). However, pooled data analysis comparing providers operating the ED CCU is yet to be conducted. Therefore, this meta-analysis was systematically conducted investigate compare prevalence of burnout among medicine (EM) (CCM) professionals. We searched for articles related our research topic using database search method manual method, which involved reviewing reference lists from electronic databases additional studies. After screening literature eligibility criteria, a quality appraisal Newcastle-Ottawa scale performed on eligible In addition, Review Manager software rates depression. A total 10 studies with 1,353 EM 1,250 CCM professionals were included present study. The did not establish any considerable differences between workers high emotional exhaustion (EE) (odds ratio (OR) = 1.01; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.46-2.19; p 0.98), depersonalization (OR 1.16; CI 0.61-2.21; 0.64), low personal accomplishment (PA) 0.87; 0.67 - 1.12; 0.28), 1.20; 0.74-1.95; 0.45). Moreover, showed no EE scores (mean difference (MD) -1.07; -4.24-2.09; 0.51) (MD -0.31; -1.35-0.73; 0.56). seemed have considerably lower PA than their counterparts 0.12; 0.08-0.16; < 0.00001). No recorded workers. findings suggest that professionals; therefore, more attention should paid mental health improve PA.