Post-COVID presumptive stressful life-events and depression among faculties
A study in tertiary care hospital in Odisha
Keywords:
Stress, Depression, PSLES, Faculties, DoctorAbstract
Introduction: Stress is an inhabitable component in a doctor’s life. Apart from the personal life, working environments add a huge components of stress in life, which later convert into depression. The unprecedent event of COVID act as top up in adding various stressful events among healthcare professionals. Objectives: The aim of this study was to measure the post-COVID amount of presumptive life stress and depression among the faculties in a tertiary care institute. Methods: It was a cross-sectional study conducted at SCB Medical College, Cuttack for the period of 6 months, i.e. January’21 to June’21. Faculties of all the departments of SCB medical college was considered as study participants and by stratified sampling 72 faculties were considered for this study. Presumptive stressful life event scale (PSLE) was used to measure the stress and Zung self-assessment depression scale (SDS) was used for the measurement of depression among the study participants. The analysis was done “R” software version 4.0.3. Results: A total of 72 faculties were included in this study. Among them, 51(70.83%) were from clinical, 13(18.05%) from para-clinical and 8(11.12%) from non-clinical departments, females (52.8%) and males (47.2%).
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