Volume No : Volume: 02 Issue : 9 Year : 2014 Page No: 443-454
Authors : Neelima A. Patole
Abstract :
Cardiovascular disorders are one of the leading causes for mortality in India. As development has taken place, lifestyle modification has occurred increasing the stress levels and also many other health problems. Objective: To assess the incidence of stress and occurrence of cardiac symptoms among working adults and to find the relationship of stress with occurrence of cardiac symptoms among working adults and to find the relationship of stress and occurrence of cardiac symptoms with selected demographic variables among working adults. Study design: Non-experimental survey design was used to conduct the study. It was an exploratory study. Data was collected from the participants using a structured questionnaire tool. Study set ting: The study was conducted in selected areas. Selected areas included police stations, auto-rickshaw stands, bus depots, petrol pumps, shopping malls, college, and hospital. Participants- Based on the inclusive criteria, 100 samples were selected who were employed working adults in the age group of 20-60 yrs. Result- The findings of the study were analysed using fisher’s exact test and the result showed that the corresponding p-value was small (less than 0.05), the null hypothesis is rejected. And therefore there is significant association between stress and respiratory symptoms. Demographic variables viz., Education, Duty hours, Shift, Workload, Marital status and living with family were found to have significant association with stress and occurrence of cardiac symptoms among working adults. Conclusion: Thus the study concluded that there is significant relation between stress and cardiac symptoms among working adults.
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