Depression, Anxiety and Quality of Life in Greek Hospital Staff: A Study in the Aftermath of the Debt Crisis Era
Background: Several studies investigated the mental health needs of hospital staff in Greece during the debt crisis era. Yet, no relevant data are available regarding the mental health of hospital staff after this period. The aims of this study are: 1) To investigate the prevalence of clinically sig...
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| author | Despoina Melemeni Konstantinos Mantzouranis Vasiliki Epameinondas Georgakopoulou Kyriakos Tarantinos Nikolaos Garmpis Christos Damaskos Pagona Sklapani Serafeim Chlapoutakis Nikolaos Trakas Xanthi Tsiafaki Ioanna V Papathanasiou |
| author_facet | Despoina Melemeni Konstantinos Mantzouranis Vasiliki Epameinondas Georgakopoulou Kyriakos Tarantinos Nikolaos Garmpis Christos Damaskos Pagona Sklapani Serafeim Chlapoutakis Nikolaos Trakas Xanthi Tsiafaki Ioanna V Papathanasiou |
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| description | Background: Several studies investigated the mental health needs of hospital staff in Greece during the debt crisis era. Yet, no relevant data are available regarding the mental health of hospital staff after this period. The aims of this study are: 1) To investigate the prevalence of clinically significant depression and anxiety in healthcare workers in a general hospital in Athens, Greece; 2) to search for the association of quality of life with anxiety and depression in those workers; 3) to investigate the association of sociodemographic characteristics with those parameters.
Methods: The Zung Depression Rating Scale, the Zung Anxiety Rating Scale, the Short-Form Survey-12, assessing quality of life, and sociodemographic assessments were administrated in 110 workers of a public hospital in Athens, Greece. The assessments were completed during January, 2020.
Results: Of the study participants, 38.2% had clinically significant anxiety and 6.4% had clinically significant depression. Males had lower scores of depression compared to females (p=0.003). As for the effects of educational level, differences were noted in psychological quality of life between secondary education participants when compared to tertiary education (Mean Difference -3.527, p=0.021), post-graduate (Mean Difference -3.937, p=0.012) and PhD participants (Mean Difference -5.100, p=0.007). Quality of life and its psychological and physical health subscales had strong inverse associations with depression and anxiety (p=0.000).
Conclusions: Relevant interventions are necessary to decrease anxiety in hospital staff, which is elevated in the aftermath of the debt crisis period. In addition, health policy makers have to reduce the gender gap in mental health between male and female workers, since the latter had higher levels of depression. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-13ad0ecfa79b4e1caf511c712905249e2022-12-21T21:17:33ZengVilnius University PressActa Medica Lituanica1392-01382029-41742021-07-0128210.15388/Amed.2021.28.2.3Depression, Anxiety and Quality of Life in Greek Hospital Staff: A Study in the Aftermath of the Debt Crisis EraDespoina Melemeni0Konstantinos Mantzouranis1Vasiliki Epameinondas Georgakopoulou2Kyriakos Tarantinos3Nikolaos Garmpis4Christos Damaskos5Pagona Sklapani6Serafeim Chlapoutakis7Nikolaos Trakas8Xanthi Tsiafaki9Ioanna V Papathanasiou101st Pulmonology Department Sismanogleio Hospital, Athens, Greece1st Pulmonology Department Sismanogleio Hospital, Athens, GreecePulmonology Department, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece1st Pulmonology Department Sismanogleio Hospital, Athens, GreeceSecond Department of Propedeutic Surgery, Laiko General Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece N.S. Christeas Laboratory of Experimental Surgery and Surgical Research, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, GreeceSecond Department of Propedeutic Surgery, Laiko General Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece N.S. Christeas Laboratory of Experimental Surgery and Surgical Research, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, GreeceDepartment of Cytology, Mitera Hospital, Athens, GreeceDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Agios Savvas Hospital, Athens, GreeceDepartment of Biochemistry, Sismanogleio Hospital, Athens, Greece1st Pulmonology Department Sismanogleio Hospital, Athens, GreeceFaculty of Nursing, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece Hellenic Open University, Patras, GreeceBackground: Several studies investigated the mental health needs of hospital staff in Greece during the debt crisis era. Yet, no relevant data are available regarding the mental health of hospital staff after this period. The aims of this study are: 1) To investigate the prevalence of clinically significant depression and anxiety in healthcare workers in a general hospital in Athens, Greece; 2) to search for the association of quality of life with anxiety and depression in those workers; 3) to investigate the association of sociodemographic characteristics with those parameters. Methods: The Zung Depression Rating Scale, the Zung Anxiety Rating Scale, the Short-Form Survey-12, assessing quality of life, and sociodemographic assessments were administrated in 110 workers of a public hospital in Athens, Greece. The assessments were completed during January, 2020. Results: Of the study participants, 38.2% had clinically significant anxiety and 6.4% had clinically significant depression. Males had lower scores of depression compared to females (p=0.003). As for the effects of educational level, differences were noted in psychological quality of life between secondary education participants when compared to tertiary education (Mean Difference -3.527, p=0.021), post-graduate (Mean Difference -3.937, p=0.012) and PhD participants (Mean Difference -5.100, p=0.007). Quality of life and its psychological and physical health subscales had strong inverse associations with depression and anxiety (p=0.000). Conclusions: Relevant interventions are necessary to decrease anxiety in hospital staff, which is elevated in the aftermath of the debt crisis period. In addition, health policy makers have to reduce the gender gap in mental health between male and female workers, since the latter had higher levels of depression.https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/AML/article/view/23040hospital staffmental healthwell-beingdepressionquality of lifeanxiety |
| spellingShingle | Despoina Melemeni Konstantinos Mantzouranis Vasiliki Epameinondas Georgakopoulou Kyriakos Tarantinos Nikolaos Garmpis Christos Damaskos Pagona Sklapani Serafeim Chlapoutakis Nikolaos Trakas Xanthi Tsiafaki Ioanna V Papathanasiou Depression, Anxiety and Quality of Life in Greek Hospital Staff: A Study in the Aftermath of the Debt Crisis Era Acta Medica Lituanica hospital staff mental health well-being depression quality of life anxiety |
| title | Depression, Anxiety and Quality of Life in Greek Hospital Staff: A Study in the Aftermath of the Debt Crisis Era |
| title_full | Depression, Anxiety and Quality of Life in Greek Hospital Staff: A Study in the Aftermath of the Debt Crisis Era |
| title_fullStr | Depression, Anxiety and Quality of Life in Greek Hospital Staff: A Study in the Aftermath of the Debt Crisis Era |
| title_full_unstemmed | Depression, Anxiety and Quality of Life in Greek Hospital Staff: A Study in the Aftermath of the Debt Crisis Era |
| title_short | Depression, Anxiety and Quality of Life in Greek Hospital Staff: A Study in the Aftermath of the Debt Crisis Era |
| title_sort | depression anxiety and quality of life in greek hospital staff a study in the aftermath of the debt crisis era |
| topic | hospital staff mental health well-being depression quality of life anxiety |
| url | https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/AML/article/view/23040 |
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