ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Amporn Benjaponpitak, M.D.

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Mental Health Problems in Residents at Ramathibodi Hospital

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Journal of The Psychiatric Association of Thailand, Vol. 41 No.2 April-June 1996, P 87-98.

รายละเอียด / Details:

Objective : To date, medical practitioners seem to suffer from high level of stress that produces psychiatric problem, especially during the postgraduate medical training years. Hence, the purposes of this study are to investigate the prevalence rate of stress in residents and to identify possible causes. Moreover, this study attempted to assess how the stress affects their attitude about the training programs. Method : All 226 residents in Ramathibodi Hospital from every year (first, second and third) and every department were sent questionnairs in November-December 1995. The questionnairs contained questions about demographic data, self-report of every day life stressors, self-evaluation of training and working in postgraduate year, and the General Health Questionnaire 30 (GHQ 30) to estimate psychiatric morbidity. c2 , Fisher’s exact and t Test were used to study the relationship between stress and various aspects of data. Results : Completed questionnairs were returned by 128 of 226 subjects (56.64 %). With the methods of scoring and validity data for the recommended cutoff from GHQ30, the estimated prevalence of emotional disturbance in this group was 54 cases (42.2 %). Subjects whose spouses were physicians were significantly more stressed than the others. On the contrary, there was no relationship between other demographic data and stress. Owing to the causes, the first three problems which influenced the perception of both stressed and non-stressed groups were problems about the dormitory, finance, and work. Additionally, in comparison, the stressed residents felt more disappointed about their decision in training as a resident position and more hesitated about their competence to finish the training courses than the non-stressed group in a statistically significant difference.

Keywords: mental health problems, residents, GHQ, stress

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 1996

Address: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Rama VI Road, Bangkok 10400

Code: 0000048

ISSN/ISBN: 0125-6985

Country of publication: Thailand.

Language: English.

Category: Abstract Journal.

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