Depression and Its Associated Factors among Staff Nurses

Abstract

Workload is the basic problem that affects Nurse's health and leads to high level of depression that disturbed brain so, nurses become agitating, panic and feels herself worthless person. Different percentage of depression is present in all-over the world among nurses 14.6 % present in high income countries and 11.1 % prevalence present in developing countries (Bromet, Andrade et al. 2011). According WHO report, depression will be the second major cause of poor health and mortality among nurses (Organization 2012). Depression in nurses associated with many factors like workload, insufficient working resources, domestic life style, lack of autonomy, job dissatisfaction and burnout among nurses (Stimpfel, Sloane et al. 2012).These factors affect nurses' lives and nurse may spend lives very depressively either at their duty place or domestically (Letvak, Ruhm et al. 2012). Ultimately all factors affect the nurses' health because many factors are involved for depression (Nakao 2010).  Determine the factor of Depression among nurses at a tertiary care hospital. Descriptive cross-sectional study design used to determine the factors of absenteeism among nurses. The study was carried out in PIC Lahore. Sample size was 186 which draw from target population 350 nurses working in PIC Lahore. Participants were selected by simple random sampling technique. A self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection. Depression is having moderate positive correlation with all three independent variables and significant relationship p = 0.000 with all variables. Different factors were found to affect the depression level of nurses at tertiary care hospital Lahore