Rao Sheldon, Ramesh Naveen
Department of Community Medicine, Intern, St Johns Medical College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Associate Professor, St Johns Medical College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Ind Psychiatry J. 2015 Jan-Jun;24(1):23-8. doi: 10.4103/0972-6748.160927.
Mental health disorders affect around 500 million people worldwide. In India, around 10-12% of people are affected by a mental disorder either due to stress, depression, anxiety, or any other cause. Mental health of workers affects the productivity of the workplace, with estimates putting these losses to be over 100 million dollars annually.
The study aims to measure depression, anxiety, and stress levels of workers in an industry and to investigate if it has any effect on productivity of the firm.
The study utilized a cross-sectional design and was conducted among workmen of the firm. A sociodemographic based questionnaire and a mental health screening tool -Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS)-21 were used for the same. A total of 90 completed questionnaires were analyzed for the study. The data was analyzed for central tendencies as well as for any associations and correlations.
The study showed that none of the workers had a positive score for depression. It also showed that around 36% of the workers had a positive score for anxiety and 18% of the workers had a positive score for stress on DASS-21 scale. The odds ratio between stress and number of leaves taken by a worker in the last 3 months suggested a dose-response relationship, but was statistically insignificant.
The study found a prevalence rate of around 18-36% for anxiety and stress amongst the workers at the factory. Large-scale studies will help understand the effect mental health status has on the Indian workplace.
全球约有5亿人受到心理健康障碍的影响。在印度，约10%-12%的人因压力、抑郁、焦虑或其他任何原因而患有精神障碍。员工的心理健康会影响工作场所的生产力，据估计，这些损失每年超过1亿美元。
本研究旨在测量某行业员工的抑郁、焦虑和压力水平，并调查其是否对公司生产力有任何影响。
本研究采用横断面设计，在该公司的工人中进行。使用了一份基于社会人口统计学的问卷和一种心理健康筛查工具——抑郁焦虑压力量表（DASS）-21进行此项研究。本研究共分析了90份完整的问卷。对数据进行了集中趋势分析以及任何关联和相关性分析。
研究表明，没有一名员工的抑郁得分为阳性。研究还表明，在DASS-21量表上，约36%的员工焦虑得分为阳性，18%的员工压力得分为阳性。压力与员工在过去3个月内请假次数之间的比值比显示出剂量反应关系，但在统计学上不显著。
该研究发现，工厂员工中焦虑和压力的患病率约为18%-36%。大规模研究将有助于了解心理健康状况对印度工作场所的影响。
