Health Status of Field Level Female Health Personnel: Study in a Rural Area of West Bengal

Nivedita Roychoudhury; Aparajita Dasgupta; Keya Roy; Lina Bandyopadhyay; Shamita Mandal; Bobby Paul

Volume : VIII, Issue : VI, June - 2018

Health Status of Field Level Female Health Personnel: Study in a Rural Area of West Bengal

Nivedita Roychoudhury, Aparajita Dasgupta, Keya Roy, Lina Bandyopadhyay, Shamita Mandal, Bobby Paul

Abstract :

Introduction:Health personnel are the backbone of health care delivery system.Their work is stressful. Yet no attention is paid to their health. With this background a study was conducted to assess the health status of female health workers of Singur Block West Bengal.

Materials and Methods: This cross–sectional study was performed in 78 female health personnel working at community level, selected by complete enumeration method. The study period was 3 months (June to August, 2017). Data was collected with a questionnaire on demographic and behavioral characteristics, SF–12 questionnaire for general health, PSS–4 questionnaire for stress with anthropometric measurement and blood sugar examination. Descriptive statistics were presented andChi–square Test was performed to analyze the data by using SPSS 16 version.

Results:Of the 78 subjects 40(51.3%) personnel were with poor health and 31(64.6%) of them were stressed.Poor health was associated increased age, stressand abnormal duration of sleep which was statistically significant.

Conclusion:Majority of the female health personnel had poor health. Periodic health check up is a must for maintenance of their good health.