The research was conducted by Brakke Consulting in collaboration with the AVMA. To assist with the project, Brakke recruited experts in mental health and social work to help design the survey and analyze the results. Kynetec, a global market research firm specializing in animal health, conducted the survey. Merck Animal Health, a supplier of pharmaceuticals and vaccines to the veterinary industry, sponsored the project and participated in its implementation.
The 3 main goals of the Merck Animal Health Veterinary Wellbeing Survey were to definitively quantify the prevalence of mental illness among veterinarians and compare that prevalence with the prevalence in the general US population of employed adults, identify those segments of the veterinary population most at risk for mental illness and determine factors that negatively and positively impact mental health in veterinarians, and measure the level of wellbeing in the profession and identify factors that contribute to higher levels of wellbeing.
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