Prevalence and predicting factors of depression and stress from work in Vachira Phuket Hospital’s employees.

Abstract

              Mental health problem is a major problem which impacts on workplace hospital’s employees, especially depression or stress from work this will the work affects to hospital work which is a service business and mainly take care of patients in the hospital. The objective of this study is to study the prevalence and predicting factors of depression and stress from work in Vachira Phuket hospital’ s employees. A crossectional descriptive study was used to study the major mental health problems, including depression and stress from work, using the secondary data from Occupational department. Data from mental health assessment model, 2Q 9Q, and assessing the level and causes of stress.The data was analyzed by frequency and percent. Chisquare was used for predicting factors in this article.The results show that prevalence of depression was 13.3 percent, the level of depression was mild (10.9%). The level of stress was moderate in Benefits and Compensation. Factor that is significantly associated with stress from work is kidney disease. Factors that are significantly associated with depression are marriage status ,have no medical disease and allergic rhinitis. There should be continuous monitoring and seeking solutions to that problems. This will prevent depression and stress from work in Vachira Phuket hospital’s employees.