Workplace stress and associated factors among healthcare professionals working in public health care facilities in Bahir Dar City, Northwest Ethiopia, 2017

Selam Gebeyehu,Balew Zeleke

doi:10.1186/s13104-019-4277-1

Selam Gebeyehu, Balew Zeleke

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4277-1

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Abstract

ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to assess workplace stress and associated factors among health care professionals working in public health care facilities in Bahir Dar city, Northwest Ethiopia, 2017.ResultsOut of the expected 294 study participants, 253 respondents had participated in the study making the response rate 86.1%. In this study the prevalence of workplace stress was found to be 48.6%. Educational status (AOR: 3.227, 95% CI [(1.358, 7.673) and working experience (AOR: 2.11,95, 95% CI [1.046, 4.260]) were the factors associated with workplace stress. The current study concluded that the prevalence of workplace stress was high among the study participants. Therefore, this study recommended that the health care facilities should work to identify other sources of workplace stress and further large-scale researches need to be done.

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The word “stress” was defined by different scholars
The current study was conducted to assess workplace stress and associated factors among healthcare professionals working in public health care facilities in Bahir Dar city, Northwest Ethiopia
The current study revealed that workplace stress was associated with working experience

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Out of 294 study participants, 253 were participating in the study making the response rate 86.1%. The majority, 199 (78.5%) of the respondents were working from Hospital. The majority, 145 (57.3%) and 154 (60.9%) were married and bachelor’s degree respectively. About 110 (43.5%) of the respondents had greater than 5 years working experiences and almost half of 125 (49.4%) of the respondents had earned less than 174.22 USD per month (Table 1). Factors associated with workplace stress Multivariable logistic regression indicated that educational status and working experience were found to be associated with workplace stress Respondents who were Master’s degree were three times (AOR: 3.227, 95% CI [(1.358, 7.673]) more likely to experience workplace stress. Participants who had worked greater than 5 years were two times 4.260]) more likely to experience workplace stress than respondents who had worked 1⁄2–5 years (Table 2)

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