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Stress and its Associated Risk Factors among Health Workers in University Teaching Hospital (Uch), Ibadan

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  • Akingbade Olumide

    (Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo)

  • Ojuolape Mumud Olabode

    (Department of Counselling and Human Development Studies University of Ibadan, Ibadan)

  • Agun Paulinah Olusola

    (Department of Adult and Non-Formal Education Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo)

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The health workers experience a harsh physical and psychologically exhaustive work process, with high and complicated demands and long work journeys; they work in shifts, with a work burden motivated by the insufficient number of professionals to attend to the overcrowded services. Therefore, the study examine stress and it’s associated risk factors among health workers in University Teaching Hospital (UCH), Ibadan. The study adopted a descriptive research design survey in which a total of two hundred health workers in University Teaching Hospital (UCH), Ibadan were selected using simple random sampling technique. Two research questions and two hypotheses were tested using descriptive and inferential statistics at 0.05 level of significant. The findings of the showed that the level of stress among health workers is high (X=3.46 > 3.00), associated risk factors among health workers is low (X=1.15

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  • Akingbade Olumide & Ojuolape Mumud Olabode & Agun Paulinah Olusola, 2023. "Stress and its Associated Risk Factors among Health Workers in University Teaching Hospital (Uch), Ibadan," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 7(7), pages 1843-1853, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bcp:journl:v:7:y:2023:i:7:p:1843-1853
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