Assessment of Psychological Well Being and Quality Of life among Fishermen Community in a select Edrural Community Area, Chengalpattu District, Tamil Nadu

Abstract

Background: Fishermen community is a group of people geographically located in the coastal areas and have theirown way of life and a distinctive culture, A variety of stressors that have an effect on physical and mental health areexperienced by commercial fishermen. However, there is limited research on the level of mental ill‐health amongfishers and In certain monsoon season mostly, fishermen cannot go to the sea due to bad weather condition,Because of this, fisherman typically have low-quality jobs that are dependent on the weather. When we look atthe association between various stressor categories and psychological distress, we see that fishers who perceive“traditional risks” and “modern uncertainties” as being more intensely are more likely to experience psychologicaldistress.Objectives\aim: To assess the psychological wellbeing among fishermen community, To assess the quality oflife among fishermen community, To find out the association between the psychological wellbeing and quality oflife among fishermen community with their selected demographic variables, To find out the correlation betweenpsychological wellbeing and quality of life among fishermen community.Materials and Methods: Quantitative descriptive research approach was used in this study.140 fishermenwere selected by using randomized sampling technique in kokilamedu, Chengalpattu district. A valid studyquestionnaire was used to collect data on socio-d emographic characteristics of fishermen, psychological wellbeingwas assessed by using genral health questionnaire and quality of life was assesses by using WHO QOL BREF scaleamong fishermen community.Results: The study shows that most of the fishermen were not affect with mental illness (98.6%) whereas remaining1.4%were affect with mental illness, majority of the fishermen were had average quality of life (94.3%) whereas5.7%of fisherman had good quality of life. Conclusion: Assessment on psychological wellbeing and quality oflife among fishermen shows that most of the fishermen were not affect with mental illness and the most of thefishermen had average quality of life.