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Psychological morbidities amongst house officers in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

BACKGROUND: Psychological morbidities are common amongst healthcare professionals. This includes junior house officers who are just transitioning from being a medical student to a doctor. They undergo many stressors during this period and hence might suffer from higher psychological morbidities s...

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Main Author: Chia Minn, Yeoh
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2015
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RC31-1245 Internal medicine
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spelling my.usm.eprints.41131 http://eprints.usm.my/41131/ Psychological morbidities amongst house officers in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia Chia Minn, Yeoh RC31-1245 Internal medicine BACKGROUND: Psychological morbidities are common amongst healthcare professionals. This includes junior house officers who are just transitioning from being a medical student to a doctor. They undergo many stressors during this period and hence might suffer from higher psychological morbidities such as depression anxiety and stress. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of psychological morbidities such as Depression, Anxiety and Stress and their coping mechanisms in a population of house officers in Sarawak General Hospital, Kuching, Sarawak. The socio-demographic factors were also evaluated. METHOD: This is a cross-sectional study involving 227 house officers in Sarawak General Hospital, Kuching, Sarawak over a period of 3 months. The sociodemographic factors including age, sex, marital status, current posting, duration of posting, place of graduate and state of origin were evaluated. The DASS (depression, anxiety and stress scale) and CISS (coping inventory in stressful situations) were completed to assess the psychological morbidities and their corresponding coping mechanisms. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress amongst house officers in Sarawak General Hospital is high. The highest psychological morbidity noted is anxiety, which is 50% of the population, followed by stress 43% and depression 42%. There is no significant association between socio-demographic factors such as gender, marital status and state of origin with depression, anxiety and stress. However there is a significant association between local and foreign graduates whereby foreign graduates show a higher prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress (p<0.001). There is significant association between emotion oriented coping and depression, anxiety and stress (p<0.001). There is also significant association between task oriented coping and depression (p=0.04), distraction oriented coping and stress (p=0.02) and social diversion oriented coping and depression (p=0.03) CONCLUSION: There is a high prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress amongst house officers in Kuching, Sarawak with no association to the sociodemographic factors. However, there is a significant association between local and foreign graduates with the prevalence of DASS and higher prevalence of DASS is seen in emotion oriented coping. 2015 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/41131/1/Dr._Yeoh_Chia_Minn-OCR.pdf Chia Minn, Yeoh (2015) Psychological morbidities amongst house officers in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. Masters thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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Psychological morbidities amongst house officers in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
description BACKGROUND: Psychological morbidities are common amongst healthcare professionals. This includes junior house officers who are just transitioning from being a medical student to a doctor. They undergo many stressors during this period and hence might suffer from higher psychological morbidities such as depression anxiety and stress. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of psychological morbidities such as Depression, Anxiety and Stress and their coping mechanisms in a population of house officers in Sarawak General Hospital, Kuching, Sarawak. The socio-demographic factors were also evaluated. METHOD: This is a cross-sectional study involving 227 house officers in Sarawak General Hospital, Kuching, Sarawak over a period of 3 months. The sociodemographic factors including age, sex, marital status, current posting, duration of posting, place of graduate and state of origin were evaluated. The DASS (depression, anxiety and stress scale) and CISS (coping inventory in stressful situations) were completed to assess the psychological morbidities and their corresponding coping mechanisms. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress amongst house officers in Sarawak General Hospital is high. The highest psychological morbidity noted is anxiety, which is 50% of the population, followed by stress 43% and depression 42%. There is no significant association between socio-demographic factors such as gender, marital status and state of origin with depression, anxiety and stress. However there is a significant association between local and foreign graduates whereby foreign graduates show a higher prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress (p<0.001). There is significant association between emotion oriented coping and depression, anxiety and stress (p<0.001). There is also significant association between task oriented coping and depression (p=0.04), distraction oriented coping and stress (p=0.02) and social diversion oriented coping and depression (p=0.03) CONCLUSION: There is a high prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress amongst house officers in Kuching, Sarawak with no association to the sociodemographic factors. However, there is a significant association between local and foreign graduates with the prevalence of DASS and higher prevalence of DASS is seen in emotion oriented coping.
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title_short Psychological morbidities amongst house officers in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
title_full Psychological morbidities amongst house officers in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
title_fullStr Psychological morbidities amongst house officers in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
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