Abstract
ABSTRACT |Background: Occupational health is increasing in visibility within the scientific community and has become a field of international research and discussions in which occupational stress is described as a possible stressor.Objective: To analyze the relationship between anxiety and depression symptoms and socioeconomic level among technical-administrative employees of a public university in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.Methods: The sample comprised 89 participants. Data were obtained through Lipp’s Inventory of Stress Symptoms for adults to identify levels of stress and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale. An additional questionnaire was administered to gather information on educational and socioeconomic levels.Results: About 45% of the participants exhibited symptoms of anxiety and 39% of depression, however, without direct relationship with their socioeconomic level. Among the participants with depression 50% were professors, and among those with depression 38.4% were administrative employees. Stress was more frequent among the participants who had attended higher education (29.6%) and graduate studies (33.3%).Conclusion: The study results indicate a high prevalence of anxiety and depression regardless of the socioeconomic level of the participants. Stress was more frequent among the participants with higher educational level.
Highlights
Work is a source of satisfaction, as well as the means to meet many physical and psychosocial needs, including self-accomplishment, personal satisfaction, interpersonal relationships and financial return[1]
As main results of the present study, we found a high prevalence of anxiety and depression symptoms among the analyzed population
Our data do not evidence a direct relationship between anxiety or depression symptoms and socioeconomic level or job position
Summary
Work is a source of satisfaction, as well as the means to meet many physical and psychosocial needs, including self-accomplishment, personal satisfaction, interpersonal relationships and financial return[1]. Work can be a source of physical and emotional overload with direct impact on health[1,2,3]. Within this context, Dejours, a respected researcher in mental health, asserts that work is never neutral, but a cause of health or disease[4,5,6]. Occupational stressors are related to factors such as productivity increase pressure, retaliation, unsafe working conditions, awkward body posture, unavailability of physical training and orientation and abuse from supervisors[8]
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