PREVALENCE AND FACTORS RELATED TO STRESS AND DEPRESSION OF HEALTHCARE WORKERS AT SOMDEJPHRAJAOTAKSINMAHARAJ HOSPITAL IN COVID-19 PANDEMIC
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Background The outbreak of COVID-19 affects stress and depression in many people, especially, the healthcare workers, because they have a higher risk of infection and the stress also affects the effectiveness of their work.
Objective To study the prevalence of stress and depression, and factors related to stress and depression in healthcare workers of Somdejphrajaotaksinmaharaj Hospital.
MethodS This research was the cross-sectional descriptive study. The population was 707 healthcare workers of Somdejphrajaotaksinmaharaj Hospital. The instruments used in the research were ST 5 Assessment Form and 9 Q Assessment Form. The data were collected from March 15, 2020 – April 11, 2020 and were analyzed by descriptive statistics, including frequency, percentage, mean, S.D. and Chi-square and Fisher's exact test statistics.
ResultS A total of 707 healthcare workers was divided into 549 patient care workers and 158 support workers. At the first stress assessment, the most of healthcare workers were 440 people (62.23%) who were stress-free-low stress and 84 people (11.88 %) who were high and severe stress. After that, 84healthcare workers who were high and severe stress underwent a second stress assessment in the second week, found that 16 healthcare workers (19.05%) still remained high and severe stress. 9 of those (56.25%) had depression. The workgroup that provides services directly to patients was significantly factor related to depression.
Conclusion AND DISCUSSION In the epidemic of Covid-19, most healthcare workers were stress-free and low-stress and non-depression. The stress decreases over time. The factors related to depression in stressful workers were the front-line patient-related workgroup.
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