STUDY ON RELATION OF STRESS, DEPRESSION AND ALCOHOL USE AMONG DIFFERENT PROFESSIONALS

Abstract

BACKGROUND - Stress has reached most of the professions posing great threat to mental and physical health. It is vital for the employers to recognize that work-related stress is a signicant health and safety issue. Interest in professional stress is now growing because of the increasing incidence of the adverse events of profession on mental and physical health of the employees. These situations further kept lot of pressure on the professionals resulting in professional stress, then into Depression and further into alcohol abuse. MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY-This is a web based online cross-sectional study conducted using google forms like Professional life stress scale, Becks depression inventory, Alcohol use disorders identication test (AUDIT). This study was conducted specically on professionals working as Doctors, Bankers and IT Professionals. Atotal of 156 professionals participated in the study. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION -Around 52.7% of doctors, 40% of bankers and 47% of IT professionals are facing moderate level of stress. In a similar fashion 56.36% of doctors, 38% of bankers and 21.5% of IT professionals are having mild mood disturbances. In all the three groups more than 95% are under low alcohol use. The results of this study indicated that there is a signicant association between stress, depression and alcohol use. This study helps us in understanding the relation of stress, depression and alcohol use among the professionals. There is an urgent need to understand the dynamics of the professional stress and its associated psychiatric morbidities so as to prevent it from assuming epidemic proportion