Abstract
BACKGROUND“Health is wealth” is a time-tested adage. Health becomes more relevant when it comes to professionals whose job is to provide people with services that maintain an optimum state of mental, physical, and social well-being. Healthcare professionals (HCP) differ from general population regarding the nature of their work, stress, burnout etc. We initiated this study to see how working hours effect on depression and mental wellbeing of operation theater Workers.
METHODSThe study included 346 participants who work in Operation Theater of multiple hospitals of Karachi. An Analytical Cross-sectional study was used and stratified random sampling technique was used to collect the sample. Questionnaires had administered directly to the operation theater participant after their consent Warwick Edinburg Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) was used to assess depression and mental wellbeing.
RESULTThere were 67.9 % male and 32.5% female participant in the study. The mean age of the participant was 35.53 ± SD 10.51 with a range of 23 to 69 years. The prevalence of stress related to long working hours was 48.26%. The mean score of WEMWBS was 44.69 ±SD 9.213.
Probable clinical depression, mild depression and normal mental wellbeing was 33.8%,17.1% and 49.1% respectively. Data has analyses by SPSS software version 24.
CONCLUSIONMost of the participants of the study were working average 8 to 9 hours per day so my study does not show significant association between working hours and depression however after applying correlation test with multiple independent variables showed significant relationship with depression.