Do doctors have hidden distress; a study conducted at tertiary care hospital at Lahore.

J Pak Med Assoc

Department of Dermatology, Combined Military Hospital, Peshawar Cantonment, Khyber Pakhtunkhwah, Pakistan.

Published: January 2016

Objective: Toanalyse the prevalence of distress in doctors serving in a tertiary care hospital and studying the factors having significant impact on the subject.

Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted at the Combined Military Hospital, Lahore, from February to December 2014, and comprised doctors serving for at least six months who volunteered to fill out the standardised General Health Questionnaire-12Demographic features and level of job satisfaction were taken as independent variables. Outcome variable was the questionnaire score. SPSS 20 was used for data analysis.

Results: The mean questionnaire score of the 97 respondents in the study was 12.27±6.397. Of them, 19(19.6%) and 11(11.3%) had distress and severe distress respectively. Marital status (p=0.006), age (p=0.029), income per month (p=0.010) and levels of job satisfaction (p=0.001) had significant impact on the scores. Variables having insignificant impact were gender (p=0.529), number of children (p=0.220), education (p=0.816), service years (p=0.155), current employment (p=0.504), nature of job (p=0.531), working hours (p=0.632), additional duties (p=0.663), and socioeconomic class (p=0.935).

Conclusions: Almost one-third of the doctors had distress under the significant impact of multiple factors.

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