Association between stress, anxiety, and satisfaction of preventing Covid-19 transmission with depression among healthcare workers during work in the Covid-19 pandemic situation at a medical school in Bangkok

Abstract

This research was a cross-sectional study to assess the association between stress, anxiety, and satisfaction of preventing COVID-19 transmission with depression among healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic. The 290 healthcare workers (HCWs) working at the Faculty of Medicine were recruited for a self-administered questionnaire from December 2021 to March 2022. The degree of stress, anxiety, and depression symptoms was assessed by using ST-5 questionnaire, DASS-21 anxiety disorder scale questionnaire and the 9Q questionnaire, respectively. It was found that the main factors that statistically significantly associated with depression included a younger age of less than 40 years, less than 6 hours of sleep, stress level, and anxiety level. This revealed that stress and anxiety level of HCWs were statistically significantly associated with depression. In contrast, participants' satisfaction of organization prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic was not statistically significantly associated with depression. Implication of the Thematic Paper: This study can be used as preliminary information to raise awareness of psychological hazards within the organization and to improve safety measures in the work of personnel under the COVID-19 pandemic.