A Study to Assess the Knowledge of Stress and Its Management Among Bank Employees in Selected Banks of Bagalkot with A View to Develop SIM

Abstract

Background: Stress is a state of mind that reflects certain reactions in the human body and is experienced by a sense of anxiety, tension, and depression and is caused by such demands of the environmental or internal forces that cannot be met by the resources available to the person.Objective: To assess the knowledge of stress and its management among Bank employees in selected banks of Bagalkot with a view to develop SIM. Methods: A cross sectional study with a sample of 100 employees working in banks of Bagalkot, selected by convenient sampling technique. A self-structured questionnaire was used to assess the data regarding stress and its management among bank employees in selected bank of Bagalkot. The data was entered in MS excel sheet and transferred to SPSS 18 for analysis. Results: Mean age of participants was 40.01 years + 2.64 years majority of the bank employees were males 65 % and remaining were females 35%. Among 100 Majority of bank employees were having mixed diet (61.42%), about 30% were vegetarian and 8.57% were non-vegetarian. Among100 employees Majority (52%) of subjects attended programme on stress management and 48 % were didn’t attended programme on stress management. Conclusion: Self-instruction module is an effective measure to improve the knowledge of stress and its management among Bank employees.