Stress of Government Official in The Office of Disease Prevention and Control 9h

Abstract

This survey research is the stress study of government officials in The Office of Disease Prevention

Control 9" Pitsanulok Province aims to examine stress levels in the staff of The Office of Disease Prevention

Control 9" Pitsanulok Province. The sample was 385 employees of Disease Prevention Control 9" Pitsanulok

Province. In the research, Suanprung Stress Test was used and data was analyzed with the computer program

successful statistics; percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and Chi – square.

The study showed that overall, high to the highest stress level, followed by average stress level and no

stress to low stress level in the staff of The Office of Disease Prevention Control 9"Pitsan accounted for 50.1% , 39.1% and 10.7% respectively. The primary source of stress in the staff of The Office of Disease Prevention Control 9" Pitsanulok Province was financial trouble followed by family problems, and work problems, which accounted for 58.1%, 52.8%, and 37.9% respectively. The most common way to deal with stress by one's self was to accept the situations followed by exercise and hobbies accounted for 60.3%, 25.1%, and 19.4% respectively. The most common way to deal with stress with others was consulting family members followed by consulting friends or others, and consulting supervisors or teachers accounted for 58.5%, 22.7% and 8.4% respectively. The result of correlation analysis found that age and working time were correlated to stress levels with statistical significance .05.