Improving Employee Mental Health: A Health Facility-Based Study in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the US, over 52.9 million (21%) adults lived with a mental health illness in 2020, with depression, being one of the commonest of these conditions. The World Health Organization ranks depression as the most important contributor to global disability. As frontline workers who are responsible for taking care of a myriad of patients daily, health workers are usually exposed to depressive situations which eventually result in the development of the condition among them. This study, therefore, developed an intervention to reduce depression among workers at the Outpatient Mental Health Clinic in Washington District of Columbia, United States.

Methods

A pre-intervention survey was conducted among 43 employees. The survey used the already validated Patient Health Quest

SUBMITTER: Gwain GC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9253413 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature