Analysis on occupational stress,depression and anxiety among key occupational groups in a central province
Objective To assess the occupational stress,depression,and anxiety status and influencing factors among key occupational groups in a central province in 2022.Methods The secondary industry conducts cluster sampling based on enterprises,while the tertiary industry adopts probability-proportional-to-size sampling(PPS).From March to December 2022,a total of 12 410 frontline employees from 208 household units were surveyed.The personal questionnaire for occupational health literacy monitoring of key population were administered to collect basic information,occupational stress,depression,and anxiety of surveyed people by field investigation using mobile terminal and upload the monitoring system in real-time,and the data were analyzed.Results The incidence of occupational stress,depression and anxiety among key occupational groups in one central province were 28.4%,74.6%and 38.2%,respectively.There was a moderate positive correlation among occupational stress,depression and anxiety(all P<0.05).There were statistically significant differences in the occurrence of occupational stress,anxiety and depression among different genders,ages,education levels,household registration,industries,unit nature,unit size,weekly working hours,night shifts(all P<0.05).The incidence of occupational stress were higher among key occupational groups,including male,age<40 years old,illiterate/rarely literate,non-agricultural household registration,chemical raw material and product manufacturing industry,state-owned enterprises,enterprise size ≥ 1 000 people,weekly working hours>55 hours and night shifts.Undergraduate students,30-<40 years old,non-agricultural registered permanent residence,education industry,enterprise size of more than 1 000 people,weekly working hours>55 hours and night shift workers had more serious depression and anxiety,while state-owned enterprise workers had more serious depression and public institution workers had more serious anxiety.Logistic regression analysis showed that increased cultural level,occupational stress,night shift,large unit size and long working hours weekly increased the risk of psychological abnormalities in key occupational groups,while agricultural household,the increase in age,registration unmarried population and the increase of monthly income reduced the risk of psychological abnormalities among key occupational groups.Compared with the coal mining and washing industry,the psychological abnormalities in other industries were increased,especially in the education industry.Compared with state-owned enterprises,the psychological abnormalities of private and other types of enterprises showed a downward trend.Conclusions The key occupational groups in a central province has varying degrees of occupational stress,depression,and anxiety.The government,society,employers and individuals should clarify their responsibilities and obligations,and to improve the psychological state of the occupational groups.