Munir Ahmed, Aalia Akhtar Hayat, Israrul Haq, Fareed Aslam Minhas.
Minor psychiatric morbidities in nurses.
J Rawal Med Coll Jan ;16(2):194-7.

Background: To study minor psychiatric disorders in staff nurses working in a tertiary care hospital. Methods: In this cross sectional descriptive study staff nurses(n=100) were evaluated in two phases.. In phase I, all were screened by using self-reporting questionaire-20 (SRQ-20) Urdu version. In phase II, all the staff nurses (n=29) scoring above the cut-off score of 7 and 10% random sample of those scoring below the cut-off score of 7,were interviewed using Present State Examination (PSE). The diagnoses generated by PSE were confirmed and labeled according to ICD-10. Results: Frequency of minor psychiatric morbidities was 27%. Depression was the most prevalent minor psychiatric morbidity (15% of whole sample, n=100, and 55.6% of those who received psychiatric diagnoses n=27) followed by generalized anxiety disorder (5% of whole sample and 18.5% of those who got some psychiatric diagnoses). Depression was associated with middle age, separation, issulessness, widowhood and children more than four.. Conclusion: A significant number of staff nurses in a tertiary care health facility had poor mental health and improving this situation could lead to the up-gradation of overall health care standards.

PakMediNet -Pakistan's largest Database of Pakistani Medical Journals - http://www.pakmedinet.com