Burden of depression, stress and anxiety amongst faculty in a medical college
Background: Stress, anxiety and depression are common nowadays with having debilitating effects on the affected person. Doctors face a lot of stress owing to various reasons. This stress affects them on a personal level and a professional level too. Methods: Fifty one faculty members willingly par...
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| author | Deepti Arora Atul Bhardwaj Manpreet Singh Hardik Pahuja Shalika |
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| description | Background: Stress, anxiety and depression are common nowadays with having debilitating effects on the affected person. Doctors face a lot of stress owing to various reasons. This stress affects them on a personal level and a professional level too.
Methods: Fifty one faculty members willingly participated in the study. A self-reported depression anxiety stress scale (DASS)-42 along with a semi-structured pro forma was distributed amongst the faculty members of a medical college and hospital at Rajpura.
Results: Most of the participants were female (60.8%) and married (86.3%). Majority were from the age group of 30–39 years (49%). Half of the faculty experience mild (25.5%)-to-moderate (25.5%) levels of depressive symptoms, about one-third reported moderate (33.3%) anxiety symptoms and about 43.1% reported mild stress symptoms.
Conclusions: High extent of depression, anxiety and stress is present in faculty of a medical college. The contributory factors related to this stress, anxiety and depression need to be studied further. Mental health and working environment of the faculty need to be addressed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0ed97dc489fe4e58be4b63a945d120ef2023-07-23T11:19:40ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Clinical and Scientific Research2277-57062277-83572023-01-011212510.4103/jcsr.jcsr_46_22Burden of depression, stress and anxiety amongst faculty in a medical collegeDeepti AroraAtul BhardwajManpreet SinghHardik PahujaShalikaBackground: Stress, anxiety and depression are common nowadays with having debilitating effects on the affected person. Doctors face a lot of stress owing to various reasons. This stress affects them on a personal level and a professional level too. Methods: Fifty one faculty members willingly participated in the study. A self-reported depression anxiety stress scale (DASS)-42 along with a semi-structured pro forma was distributed amongst the faculty members of a medical college and hospital at Rajpura. Results: Most of the participants were female (60.8%) and married (86.3%). Majority were from the age group of 30–39 years (49%). Half of the faculty experience mild (25.5%)-to-moderate (25.5%) levels of depressive symptoms, about one-third reported moderate (33.3%) anxiety symptoms and about 43.1% reported mild stress symptoms. Conclusions: High extent of depression, anxiety and stress is present in faculty of a medical college. The contributory factors related to this stress, anxiety and depression need to be studied further. Mental health and working environment of the faculty need to be addressed.http://www.jcsr.co.in/article.asp?issn=2277-5706;year=2023;volume=12;issue=1;spage=2;epage=5;aulast=Aroraanxietydepressionfacultystress |
| spellingShingle | Deepti Arora Atul Bhardwaj Manpreet Singh Hardik Pahuja Shalika Burden of depression, stress and anxiety amongst faculty in a medical college Journal of Clinical and Scientific Research anxiety depression faculty stress |
| title | Burden of depression, stress and anxiety amongst faculty in a medical college |
| title_full | Burden of depression, stress and anxiety amongst faculty in a medical college |
| title_fullStr | Burden of depression, stress and anxiety amongst faculty in a medical college |
| title_full_unstemmed | Burden of depression, stress and anxiety amongst faculty in a medical college |
| title_short | Burden of depression, stress and anxiety amongst faculty in a medical college |
| title_sort | burden of depression stress and anxiety amongst faculty in a medical college |
| topic | anxiety depression faculty stress |
| url | http://www.jcsr.co.in/article.asp?issn=2277-5706;year=2023;volume=12;issue=1;spage=2;epage=5;aulast=Arora |
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