Elene Asanidze's dataset contains survey responses from 390 physicians and 240 non-medical professionals in Tbilisi, Georgia, collected between February and May 2024. It assesses stress and depressive symptoms using the DASS-21 and PHQ-9 instruments, alongside work-related and psychosocial factors. The data is stored in a 33.5 KB XLSX file.
Use Cases
- Compare stress and depression prevalence between physicians and non-medical professionals based on the described control group.
- Analyze associations between stress levels and professional experience or gender based on the reported odds ratios.
- Examine differences in mental health indicators across medical specialties like obstetrics-gynecology and general surgery as mentioned in the results.
- Investigate links between work-related stressors, sleep disturbances, and optimism among younger physicians as described.
Strengths
- Includes a control group of 240 non-medical professionals for comparative analysis.
- Uses validated screening instruments (DASS-21 and PHQ-9) for assessing mental health outcomes.
- Captures data on 390 physicians across multiple medical specialties.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Employed a non-probability convenience sampling method, which may affect generalizability.
Provenance
- Source
- Elene Asanidze via figshare.
- Collection Method
- Cross-sectional online survey administered via Microsoft Forms.
- Time Range
- Data collected between February 5 and May 25, 2024.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-29 17:43:11; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Tbilisi, Georgia.