Prevalence of Stress, Quality of Life and Associated Factors in Office Worker in Bangkok Metropolitan
Wonglertwisawakorn Ch, MD1
Affiliation : 1 Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine Vajira Hospital, Navamindradhiraj University, Bangkok, Thailand
Objective : To determine the prevalence and associated factors of stress and quality of life in office workers in Bangkok Metropolitan
Administration.
Materials and Methods : This is a questionnaire based descriptive study. Questionnaires consisted of 4 parts: personal information,
Suanprung stress test, WHOQOL-BREF-THAI (26 items) and Thai-job content questionnaire. The prevalence and association were
calculated by Chi-square test.
Results : A total of 495 participants were included. Of these, 43.8% experienced abnormal stress and 62.2% had poor quality of life.
From multivariate analysis, significant risk factors of abnormal stress included alcoholic consumption, sitting work >7 hours per
day, computer work sitting >5 hours per day, poor quality of life, high physical job demand and hazard at work. The risk factors of
poor quality of life were bachelor’s degree, single, absence of exercise, abnormal stress and high physical job demand. One protective
factor for poor quality of life was high job control.
Conclusion : About half of office workers in Bangkok Metropolitan Administration had abnormal stress and poor quality of life. The
present results could serve as a guideline to establish solution for alleviating stress and improving quality of life for these group of
people.
Keywords : Stress, Quality of life, Job stress, Office worker, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration
