Mental Health of Management Staff in the Closed Environment of Construction

Abstract

Introduction

it is difficult to overestimate the role of social, cultural and environmental conditions in evaluation of psychological health in hard intellectual work.

Objectives

Research of construction staff in far taiga conditions using PHQ и GAD-7.

Aims

to investigate the correlation between major depressive disorder, anxiety and somatoform disorders and gender and marital status.

Methods

we studied 119 people who live in concentrated social environment and in conditions of hard work and lack of relaxation. In order to study depression, anxiety, and somatoform disorders we used PHQ и GAD-7 rating scale.

Results

we noted that distribution of depression according to gender has statistically significant differences. In the men group the number of depressive individuals is 5 (11.1%; P < 0.01). In the women group the number is 28 (37.8%; P < 0.01). Also it was stated, that marital status does not influence the distribution of depressive symptomatology level (P > 0.05). Distribution of anxiety symptoms significantly differs by gender. In the group of men anxiety observed in 1 patients (2.2%; P < 0.05), whilst in the group of women – in 13 patients (17.6%; P < 0.05). Gender proved to be irrelevant in the occurrence of somatoform disorders (P > 0.05); it is also not dependent on marital status (P > 0.05).

Conclusion

Staff employed into hard working social environment experience a range of negative psychological effects such as depressed mood, fatigue, and insomnia. Lack of leisure and lack of time for walking cause dissatisfaction with life, which contributes to the development of depression, anxiety and somatoform disorders.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.