Open AccessAssessment of anxiety level of emergency health-care workers by generalized anxiety disorder-7 tool
Author(s) -
Nesrin Alharthy,
Osama Abdulrahman Alrajeh,
Mohammed Almutairi,
Ahmed Alhajri
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of applied and basic medical research/international journal of applied and basic medical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2248-9606
pISSN - 2229-516X
DOI - 10.4103/2229-516x.212963
Subject(s) - anxiety , generalized anxiety disorder , medicine , emergency department , psychiatry , health care , depression (economics) , cross sectional study , clinical psychology , pathology , economics , economic growth , macroeconomics
Dealing with emergency patients is considered to be a stressful situation to all health-care workers in the emergency department (ED). Prolonged stress predispose to physical and inconsequential psychiatric disturbances. Anxiety and depressive mode were found to be the most commonly experienced psychiatric manifestation among emergency health-care workers. The aim of this study is to screen and assess the severity of anxiety among health professionals working in ED.