Abstract:

Background: Depression is a significant contributor to the global burden of disease and a major public health concern which affects people in all communities across the world. Depression in the work place has been an alarming concern which have a big effect on relationship at work place, people who experience an emotional disorder may withdrawal from others, take a lot of time off, or appears less productive than usual.

Aim: This study aims to determine the prevalence and associated factors of depression among CUHAS/BMC staffs.

Methods: This was a cross sectional study, where a total of 301 BMC/CUHAS staffs were recruited and interviewed by using Becks Depression Inventory (BDI). The sample size was randomly selected from each Department.

Results: Majority of the participants (53.16%) were females while male participants were 46.84% and 72.08% of the participants were married. 86.38% of the participants were BMC employee while 13.62% were CUHAS employee. Prevalence of depression among CUHAS/BMC staff were found to be 32.89% with 18.94% found to have mild depression, 10.69% have moderate depression and 2.99% have severe depression. Gender, education, primary employer and night shift showed statistically significant correlation with depression.

Conclusion: There is a high prevalence of depression among CUHAS/BMC staffs, therefore there is need to increase access and availability of counselling services to departmental level in every department, and initiation of psycho education.