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Prevalence of perceived stress and associations to symptoms of exhaustion, depression and anxiety in a working age population seeking primary care - an observational study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Primary Care, March 2015
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Title
Prevalence of perceived stress and associations to symptoms of exhaustion, depression and anxiety in a working age population seeking primary care - an observational study
Published in
BMC Primary Care, March 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12875-015-0252-7
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Authors

Lilian Wiegner, Dominique Hange, Cecilia Björkelund, Gunnar Ahlborg

Abstract

Prolonged stress may lead to mental illness, but the prevalence of stress in a working age population seeking primary health care for whatever reason, is unknown. This paper seeks to examine to what extent this group perceives stress, as well as symptoms of burnout/exhaustion, depression and anxiety. In 2009, 587 primary health care patients aged 18-65 years (377 women, 210 men), with an appointment with a primary health care physician, participated in the study. A screening questionnaire with questions about age, gender, marital status, employment, reason for medical consultation, and the QPS Nordic screening question about stress was distributed:" Stress is defined as a condition where you feel tense, restless, anxious or worried or cannot sleep at night because you think of problems all the time. Do you feel that kind of stress these days? There were five possible answers; "not at all" and "only a little" (level 1),"to some extent" (level 2),"rather much" and "very much" (level 3). In a second step, symptoms of burnout/exhaustion (Shirom-Melamed Burnout Questionnaire and the Self-rated Exhaustion Disorder instrument) and anxiety/depression (Hospital Depression and Anxiety scale) were assessed among those with higher levels of perceived stress. 345 (59%) of the study patients indicated stress levels 2 or 3 (237 women and 108 men). Women more often indicated increased levels of stress than men. Two thirds of the participants expressing stress levels 2-3 indicated a high degree of burnout, and approximately half of them indicated Exhaustion Disorder (ED). Among highly stressed patients (level 3), 33% reported symptoms indicating possible depression and 64% possible anxiety. More than half of this working age population perceived more than a little stress, as defined, women to a greater extent than men. Symptoms of burnout and exhaustion were common. A high level of perceived stress was often accompanied by symptoms of depression and/or anxiety.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 338 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 62 18%
Student > Bachelor 52 15%
Researcher 34 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 24 7%
Other 46 14%
Unknown 93 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 71 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 62 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 31 9%
Neuroscience 12 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 3%
Other 47 14%
Unknown 108 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 February 2022.
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#1,394,063
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#117
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#17,687
of 278,595 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Primary Care
#4
of 38 outputs
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