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The impact of Work Environment on Depression among Medical Personnel in Alhasaheesa locality in Gazira State, Sudan 2016
(2019-03) Intisar Elshiekh Mohammed; Prof. Abdalla Abdelrahman
Background: It is well documented that work environment influences overall life quality of workers including mental health and, in this generalization, medical personnel are not exceptional. Different studies showed that encouraging work environment has a positive impact on the workers’ mental health while the poor environment inflicts the reverse. International and many native work legislations have stressed on the right of the workers in having favorable working environment. The medical professional personnel have unique work environment that exposes them to different stressors. Depression risk factors can stem out from the unfavorable work environment rendering many of the medical personnel as victimized to it. Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of work environment on depression among the medical personnel in Alhasaheesa locality in Gazira, Sudan. Methodology: This study enrolled 208 out of 428 medical personnel in Governmental Health Facilities in Alhasaheesa Locality, Al Gazira State, Sudan. The required data were collected by using predesigned closed ended question questionnaire through self-instruction. The impact of work environment on depression among them was assessed according to HAD scale. Results: Gender wise, the 208 participants included 123 (59.1%) females and 85 (40.9%) males with age ranging from 20 to 59 years and an average of 29.8 years. The participants included medical specialists (5.8%), medical officers (21.6%), pharmacists (1.4%), nurses (33.2%), medical assistants (1.9%), midwives (7.7%) and others (28.4%). They had variable duration of employment ranging from less than five years to more than 20 years. The risk factors significantly associated with depression were years of employment (p= 0.001), work facilities (p= 0.025) and job satisfaction (p= 0.048). Daily working hours and work relations were not significantly associated with depression (p= 0.524, 0.274 respectively). Conclusion: The risk factors in this study associated with work environment can be amended by carrying out thorough situation analysis and planning workable executable solutions. The factors that were not associated with depression can be augmented to help in buffering the depressive factors. Further studies are needed to explore the full extent of the problem so as to manage different stressors. Keywords: Work environment, Depression, Alhasahesa.
Risk Factors For Depression Among Medical Personnel Working at Governmental Health Facilities in Alhasahesa City, Sudan
(Al Neelain University, 2018) Intisar Elshiekh Mohammed
Background: Healthcare workers are exposed to a higher risk of depressive disorders than the general population related to their working conditions which may succumb them to some clinical depression. Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the risk factors of depression among governmental healthcare workers in Alhasahesa city, Sudan. Methodology: This is a descriptive hospital-based study with stratified random sampling, conducted among governmental healthcare workers. The study enrolled 208 participants, included both gender; their ages ranged between 20 to 59 years. The study variables included sociodemographic factors, work related factors and health factors . The required data was collected by predesigned questionnaire in addition to two scales (Beck's Scale for depression and hospital anxiety and depression scale (HAD,s Scale) . Data was analyzed using Medical Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 22. Results: The participants were 208 governmental healthcare workers, 123 (59.1%) of them were females and 85 (40.9%) were males their age ranging between 20 and 59 years. According to Beck scale of depression, (77.9%) of participants were normal while (51.0%) were normal in hospital anxiety and depression scale. On the other hand, hospital anxiety and depression scale showed a variation between depression risk factors association. Moreover; the study reflected that socio demographic factors such gender, age, and marital status, daily working hours, work relations had insignificances association among risk factors of depression. Work related variables including job, academic qualifications job satisfaction, working conditions and years of employment were found to be significantly as risk factors for depression. 64.4% of participants were optimistic towards the future. Conclusion: The governmental healthcare workers in Alhasahesa city were exposed to considerable risk factors of depression. Entire results deduced by Beck’ scale of depression showed that job variable have significant association as risk factor for depression between tested variables. 22.1% of the study population have variable level of depression ranging from mild to severe according to Beck scale while 41% suffering from depression according to hospital anxiety and depression scale . The study emphasizes on much attention and further studies needs to be done to alleviate the negative impact of the risk factors of depression among this study population