Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
Ann Gen Psychiatry. 2011 Oct 19;10(1):28. doi: 10.1186/1744-859X-10-28.
Psychological distress in healthcare workers may vary across different specialties. The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in the rate of anxiety and depression between medical and mental healthcare workers.
The sample was randomly selected and consisted of 229 workers from the medical health sector and 212 from the mental health sector, aged 39.8 ± 7.9 years old. Health workers from University and General Hospitals from all over Greece participated in the study. The Greek version of the Symptoms Rating Scale For Depression and Anxiety (SRSDA) was used. Statistics were processed with SPSS v. 17.0.
The medical health professionals showed statistically significantly higher scores in all the subscales in comparison with the mental health sector workers, independently of years serving in the department. The rates of a possible psychiatric disorder (score over cutoff points) were significantly elevated on the Beck-21, melancholy and asthenia subscales.
Medical healthcare workers appear to suffer from psychological distress more than their colleagues in the mental sector.
医护人员的心理困扰可能因专业而异。本研究旨在调查医学和精神卫生保健工作者之间焦虑和抑郁发生率的差异。
采用随机抽样法，选取希腊各地大学和综合医院的 229 名医疗保健工作者和 212 名精神卫生保健工作者作为样本，年龄为 39.8 ± 7.9 岁。研究采用希腊版的抑郁和焦虑症状评定量表（SRSDA）。采用 SPSS v. 17.0 进行统计分析。
与精神卫生保健工作者相比，医学卫生专业人员在所有子量表上的得分均显著更高，且与在该部门工作的年限无关。在贝克-21 量表、忧郁和乏力子量表上，可能存在精神障碍（得分超过临界值）的比例显著升高。
与精神科同事相比，医疗保健工作者似乎更容易受到心理困扰。
