Work related stress and its effect on mental health among employees of Ain Shams University hospitals

Abstract

Work related stress is defined as an employee’s reaction to characteristics at the workplace that seem mentally and physically threatening (Jamal, 2005). Occupational stress is an exploding phenomenon in the current global scenario. The impact of which costs for the employees and organization severely (Cotton & Hart, 2003). Work-related stress in developing countries is often made worse by a broad spectrum of factors outside the work environment from gender inequalities, poor environmental management of industrial pollution to illiteracy, parasitic and infectious diseases, poor hygiene and sanitation, poor nutrition, poor living conditions, inadequate transportation systems and general poverty (WHO, 2007).