Demographic analysis of members of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists.

This study examines which issues public psychiatrists perceive as having most impacted their careers over the past five years and whether this impact was experienced differently by psychiatrists in varying regions of the country. The author sent a questionnaire to all members of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists in clinical practice for at least five years. Seventy-one percent (344 of 482) responded. As expected, respondents were generally negative about how economic factors have impacted their professional lives. This impact, however, was experienced very differently depending on which region of the country the psychiatrist was working.