Open AccessDepression, anxiety and stress levels in industrial workers: A pilot study in Bangalore, India
Author(s) -
S. Vanaja Rao,
R Naveen
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/0972-6748.160927
Subject(s) - anxiety , depression (economics) , mental health , dass , productivity , odds , medicine , affect (linguistics) , cross sectional study , clinical psychology , scale (ratio) , psychiatry , psychology , environmental health , logistic regression , geography , cartography , communication , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
Mental health disorders affect around 500 million people worldwide. In India, around 10-12% of people are affected by a mental disorder either due to stress, depression, anxiety, or any other cause. Mental health of workers affects the productivity of the workplace, with estimates putting these losses to be over 100 million dollars annually.