An Investigation of the Work Related Stress and its Factors of Women Employees of the Textile Industry in Visakhapatnam, India

Abstract

Work related stress (WRS) is a disturbing health problem which would result in serious socio-economic consequences and hence needs to be prevented with appropriate measures. The employees of any working place have great impact of the environment they work in their physical and mental wellbeing. The study was conducted in Visakhapatnam city which is one of the foremost industrial town of Andhra Pradesh, India. Analysis of multivariate of WRS in relation to all the variables, we found rotating working times, lower social supports were statistically significant. The odds of WRS was 2-fold among rotating workers (AOR=2.24, 95% CI=1.58–3.28) as compared to their counterparts. Lower social support (AOR=3.84, 95% CI=2.98–5.31), and moderate social support (AOR=3.16, 95% CI=1.85–4.98) having more risk associated factors for work-related stress in compare to good social support. Ultimately work related stress impact the women employees’ organizational productiveness. So work related stress should be monitored at the very beginning to avoid reduction of productivity, any kind of injury or accident and cost of injured workers.