“MENTAL WELL-BEING OF HOUSEKEEPING WORKERS WORKING DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN A SELECTED TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL”

Abstract

Background of the study: Mental well-being is an important contributor to workplace productivity, success, and job satisfaction. There are many ways in which factors in the workplace can contribute toward mental well-being., examples include good professional relationships, clear feedback and instructions, positive feedback, and work life balance. The purpose of the study is to assess the Mental well-being of housekeeping workers working during COVID-19 Pandemic. Methodology: Quantitative descriptive research approach was adopted, total 255 Workers working during COVID-19 Pandemic were selected through total enumeration sampling technique. Data was collected from selected tertiary care hospital, Dehradun by using demographic data sheet and Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale. The data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: Result shows that out of 255 samples majority of the participants were female. 54.9% & (52.1%) were within the age group of 32-45years. Most of the Housekeepers were educated till Primary 56.9%, Majority of housekeeping workers were healthy, and 100% of the housekeeping workers were having knowledge regarding COVID 19. During COVID 19  most of the housekeeping workers (42.3%) were living in their own house. Majority of participants i.e., 88.2% were having children. One third of participant during covid 19 pandemic i.e., 50.5% had worked in covid wards, 69.1% housekeepers were having experience of more than four years, as non-parametric test was applied and it was found that there was statistically association between mental well-being and socio-demographic variable i.e. mental wellbeing of housekeeping workers with the had any medical surgical illness variables at the significance level of (p<0.05). No association was found with gender, age, education, medical surgical illness, marital status, occupation of your spouse, awareness about COVID 19, work experience, posting during COVID 19, place of residence during COVID 19. The mean score of mental well-being of housekeeping workers was 55.61 with standard deviation 3.79 which means that most of the housekeeping workers has average mental well-being, (50.6%) of housekeeping workers felt optimistic about the future, 43.9% felt useful, 33.7% felt relaxed, 27.5% felt interested in other people , 19.6% had energy to spare , 18% were dealing with problem well, 16.9% able to think clearly , 13.7% felt good about him/herself, 9.4% felt close to other person, 6.3% felt confident , 5.5% able to make up my own mind about things, feeling loved and interested in new things , 1.2% felt cheerful. Out of 255 housekeepers, 82% of housekeeping workers are having Average mental wellbeing and 18% of housekeeping workers have above average mental well-being. Conclusion: Most of the housekeeping workers Mental well-being of during COVID 19 were average