Abstract
BACKGROUND: Urbanisation itself brings an advantages and disadvantages which lead to hospital overcrowding. It has been described as the most serious problem that endangers the reliability of health system worldwide. As 2018, Hospital Serdang documented a very high bed occupancy rate (BOR) more than 100% for almost every day. OBJECTIVES: To study the impact of overcrowding among staff in Hospital Serdang. METHODS: This a one-year retrospective cross-sectional study from January 2018 until December 2018. The data was collected from Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Unit Hospital Serdang through Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) questionnaire and other data such as road traffic accident, needle stick, and mercury and splash injury among staff were also collected. The sociodemographic data, comorbids, type of occupation was analysed. The exclusion criteria are those with incomplete data. RESULTS: Out of 562 staff, 5.7% were screened to have bad DASS score, which comprises of 0.9% stress, 6.6% anxiety and 1.8% depression and referrals to psychiatrist and counsellor were made. About 2.8% of the staff had Needle Stick and splash Injury (NSI), 0.1% had mercury injury while 0.7% had involved in road traffic accident (RTA). CONCLUSION: More than 94% of staff in Serdang Hospital are having good mental status with low incidence of NSI, mercury injury and RTAs. Even though DASS scoring is a clinical assessment that that used for screening, it cannot be under looked as mental ill health is a growing problem and need urgent attention.
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-188,
title = {Impact of Overcrowding Among Staff in Hospital Serdang},
author = {Aniz Nor Sofia Mohamed},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {BACKGROUND: Urbanisation itself brings an advantages and disadvantages which lead to hospital overcrowding. It has been described as the most serious problem that endangers the reliability of health system worldwide. As 2018, Hospital Serdang documented a very high bed occupancy rate (BOR) more than 100% for almost every day. OBJECTIVES: To study the impact of overcrowding among staff in Hospital Serdang. METHODS: This a one-year retrospective cross-sectional study from January 2018 until December 2018. The data was collected from Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Unit Hospital Serdang through Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) questionnaire and other data such as road traffic accident, needle stick, and mercury and splash injury among staff were also collected. The sociodemographic data, comorbids, type of occupation was analysed. The exclusion criteria are those with incomplete data. RESULTS: Out of 562 staff, 5.7% were screened to have bad DASS score, which comprises of 0.9% stress, 6.6% anxiety and 1.8% depression and referrals to psychiatrist and counsellor were made. About 2.8% of the staff had Needle Stick and splash Injury (NSI), 0.1% had mercury injury while 0.7% had involved in road traffic accident (RTA). CONCLUSION: More than 94% of staff in Serdang Hospital are having good mental status with low incidence of NSI, mercury injury and RTAs. Even though DASS scoring is a clinical assessment that that used for screening, it cannot be under looked as mental ill health is a growing problem and need urgent attention.},
note = {Type: POSTER PRESENTATION; Organisation:},
keywords = {impact, Overcrowding, staff},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}