Depression, anxiety and stress among the faculty members of Aljouf medical and Dental colleges, Saudi Arabia
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
Background: Everyone experiences stress and anxiety at one time or another. Depression is also common but serious illness Objective: Find prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress among the faculty members of medical and dentistry colleges of Aljouf university, Saudi Arabia. Methods: The pre-validate questionnaires were distributed to 60 members of faculty of medicine and dental colleges which started from 24th March till 2nd April, 2014. Out of all 18 from dental and 35 from medical colleges were responded to the questionnaires. A questionnaire was prepared from DASS 21. SPSS V.17 was used for collection of data to calculation of frequencies and percentages. Results: With respond rate of 88%, the mean score for depression was 0.45 which indicates low depression in these colleges based on score from 0 to 4. Also, anxiety and stress showed mean of 0.42 which was also low in this population. Conclusion: A low level of depression, anxiety and stress were seen in staff of medical and dental colleges. The contributory factors for this low level of these parameters can to be studied further.
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Feras Fahad A. Alri
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