Health care workers are exposed to a number of stres- sors, ranging from work overload, time pressures, and lack of role clarity to dealing with infectious diseases and difficult and ill, helpless patients. Such stressors can lead to physical and psychological symptoms, absentee- ism, turnover, and medical errors.
Sources of stress to healthcare workers as perceived by respondents showed that, 48 (24.2%) said it emanates from emergency situations, 7 (3.5%) said performing adhoc duties (whatever that means) 61 (30.8%) said absence/obsolete/insufficient equipment, while 59 (29.8%) said it emanates from staff attitude to work and staff attitude to fellow staff.
