Ulusow, Naima Hassan

EFFECT OF WORK-RELATED STRESS ON HELATH CARE WORKERS IN BANADIR HOSPITAL MOGADISHU-SOMALIA / NAIMA HASSAN ULUSOW; SUPERVISOR: PROF. DR. MEHMET YEŞİLTAŞ - viii, 52 sheets; 31 cm. Includes CD

Thesis (MSc) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research Health Care Organizations Management Department

Includes bibliography (sheets 43-46)

ABSTRACT
Stress at work is rife around the world. Stress at work is thought to cost the
economy $5.4 billion every year. Healthcare institutions are thought of as high risk work environments with risks related to workload. However, there are no
precise and trustworthy statistics available regarding the workload that Somalia
exerts on medical staff. The physical, mental, social, or organizational demands of
the job include tasks that call for continuous physical and/or cerebral exertion.
They must bear some emotional and/or mental consequences as a result. Job
demands include things like the need to feel a specific way and pressure at work.
The general purpose of the study is to find out the prevalence and linked factors
of work-related stress among healthcare professionals at Banadir Hospital in
Mogadishu, Somalia. Determine the prevalence of work-related stress among
health workers at Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, was one of the
particular goals. 2) To identify socio-demographic factors that affect the stress
that healthcare workers experience at work at Mogadishu, Somalia's Banadir
Hospital. 3) To evaluate institutional factors that contribute to workplace stress
among health professionals at Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia 4) To
ascertain the factors at work that contribute to stress among health professionals at
the Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia. 203 health care employees
participated in the study after being randomly selected using Slovene’s algorithm.
A questionnaire and SPSS version 20 were used to gather and evaluate the data.
The 203 participants in the study had approximately equal gender distribution.
And most of the participants were between the ages of 18 and 27. Additionally,
the bachelor's degree was a common level of study. We chose the Likert scale,
which has five possible scales: Neutral, Agree, Strongly Agree, and Strongly
Disagree. 25 questions or statements follow: Stress among health care
professionals and sociodemographic, institutional, and workplace factors were our
independent variables (IV) in the analyses (DV). Additionally, our study's
variables were analyzed using Cronbach's alpha in the reliability analysis. At
p=0.01, all of the variables were correlated with one another.
Keywords: Non-communicable diseases, Healthcare Workers, Workplace Stress


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