Implementation and Impact of a Community Advisory Board to Promote Health Equity in a State-Based Contraceptive Access Initiative.

The discipline of anaesthesia requires its providers to assume responsibility for overseeing physiological homeostasis in an unconscious patient undergoing a procedure. This demands considerable vigilance and rapid clinical decision-making, often during intraoperative crises. Therefore, anaesthetists experience high levels of perceived stress, and such chronic exposure may have deleterious effects on their mental wellbeing. Within the field of anaesthesiology, trainees have been identified as a particularly vulnerable group given their long working hours and necessity to navigate both their clinical workload and academic obligations. A 2017 report from the Royal College of Anaesthetists found that 61% of anaesthesia trainees felt their job negatively affected their mental wellbeing. The concept of mental wellbeing is broad and complex. Over the last 40 years, two components in the field have been the subject of ever-increasing research: burnout and depression and their effects on workplace performance. Such research has been the catalyst for introducing workplace wellbeing programmes to improve wellbeing in a workforce.