TY - JOUR AU - Davey, Anuradha AU - Sharma, Parul AU - Davey, Sanjeev AU - Shukla, Arvind AU - Srivastava, Kajal AU - Vyas, Shaili PY - 2015/08/28 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Are the adverse psychiatric outcomes reflection of occupational stress among nurses: An exploratory study JF - Asian Journal of Medical Sciences JA - Asian J Med Sci VL - 7 IS - 1 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.3126/ajms.v7i1.12869 UR - https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/AJMS/article/view/12869 SP - 96-100 AB - <p><strong>Background: </strong>Stress-related disorders encompass a broad array of conditions, including psychological disorders such as depression and anxiety etc.<strong> </strong>Among healthcare professionals, nurses have been found to be most prone to burnout.</p><p><strong>Aims and Objective:</strong> 1) To find out the prevalence of recent stress among staff nurses in terms of somatic symptoms, anxiety, social dysfunction and depression and; 2) To find out the association between these psychiatric outcomes and various socio-demographic variables, inter-personal relationships, working environment and professional stress.</p><p><strong>Materials and Methods:</strong> Institutional based cross sectional study conducted on 100 staff nurses. Goldberg and Hillier’s 28-item scaled version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) was used to measure the psychological aspect of quality of life of Staff nurses.  </p><p><strong>Results:</strong> The most common psychological outcome noted was the social dysfunction (94%) among the staff nurses. For anxiety, potential stressor were doctors’ attitude, insufficient salary and separate wash room for females; whereas significant association was found between depression and unsatisfactory attitude of doctors, fellow nurses, not enough time for rest and not getting enough holidays.</p><p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> Social dysfunction could be cause or effect of other psychiatric manifestations like anxiety or depression</p><p>Asian Journal of Medical Sciences Vol.7(1) 2015 96-100</p> ER -