Determinants of Depressive Symptoms Among Rural Health Workers: An Application of Socio-Ecological Framework.

depression rural health workers rural healthcare socio-ecological framework

Journal

Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare
ISSN: 1178-2390
Titre abrégé: J Multidiscip Healthc
Pays: New Zealand
ID NLM: 101512691

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2020
Historique:
received: 25 03 2020
accepted: 21 08 2020
entrez: 16 10 2020
pubmed: 17 10 2020
medline: 17 10 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The objective of this study was to assess depressive symptoms among rural health workers (RHWs) through a multi-factorial socio-ecological framework (SEF) encompassing personal, interpersonal, organizational and community components. A random sample of 394 RHWs in all rural areas of East Azerbaijan and fulfilling our other inclusion criteria were recruited. The participants underwent the Short-Form Beck's Depression Inventory and a validated researcher-constructed SEF questionnaire, including subscales on personal, interpersonal, organizational and community factors associated with depressive symptoms. Internal consistency and factor structure parameters of the SEF were also calculated. A total of 394 RHWs were screened, of whom 170 (43.2%) had mild to major depressive symptoms. Only 6.8% were identified with major depressive symptoms. The SEF-based scale was found to have acceptable content validity (content validity index and ratio were 0.80 and 0.77, respectively) and reliability (Cronbach's alpha=0.7). In the structural equation modeling, the fit indices showed our model to fit the data well ( Depressive symptoms were common among RHWs, arising from all personal-, interpersonal-, organizational- and community-level factors. Our SEF had adequate internal consistency and factor structure parameters to be applied in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region countries, such as Iran, as a theoretical framework to plan for interventional efforts aiming at preventing depressive symptoms among RHWs. The burden of depressive symptoms should be reduced through multi-factorial interventions and rational perspectives.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33061403
doi: 10.2147/JMDH.S255436
pii: 255436
pmc: PMC7519861
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

967-981

Informations de copyright

© 2020 Bakhtari et al.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare no potential competing interests for this work.

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Auteurs

Fatemeh Bakhtari (F)

Department of Health Education and Promotion, Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.

Parvin Sarbakhsh (P)

Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.

Jalil Daneshvar (J)

Department of Health Education and Promotion, Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.

Devender Bhalla (D)

Pôle Universitaire euclide Intergovernmental UN Treaty 49006/49007, Bangui, Central African Republic.
Iranian Epilepsy Association, Tehran, Iran.

Haidar Nadrian (H)

Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.

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