ABSTRACT
Objective: the aim of our study is to determine the level of stress in young doctors categorizing it on yearly and specialty basis and also to determine personal factors like gender and marriage. So that we can counter this problem to improve patient care/ clinical management and finally health care delivery system
Material and Methods: across sectional survey of resident doctors in different specialties was conducted in Jinnah Hospital Lahore. The questionnaire we used i.e. AKUADS along with a proforma for the collection of data of the participants. AKUADS is a self-reporting scale in Urdu language which has been designed and validated for study in our population
Results: there were 200 postgraduate resident doctors of which 52 % male and 48 % female were recruited in the study. Mean age was 27 years; minimum age was 23 years, and maximum age was 36 years. Of the randomized data, 32 % 1st year resident, 24% 2nd year result, 33% and 3rd year, 11 % were 4th year. 56% were from medicine and allied and 44 % were from surgery and allied. In our participants who had scored less than 19 i.e. not suffering from depressive and anxiety symptoms on AKUADS were 58% [67.3% male and 47.9% female]. Participants scoring between 20 to 40 i.e. mild were 34% [25%male and 43.8% female]. Participants scoring between 41 to 60 i.e. moderate were 6% [7.7% male a d 4.2% female]. Participants scoring between 61 to 80 i.e. severe were 2% [0%male and 100% female]
Conclusions: frequency of high degree of anxiety and depressive symptoms can be considered as bad indicator of deteriorating health care system and need for urgent concern and action to change the current situation