Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Volume 21, Issue 6, 2019, Pages 1233-1240

Mental Health Status of Expatriate Nurses in Northcentral Saudi Arabia (Article)

Zaghloul M.S. , Saquib J. , AlMazrou A. , Saquib N.*
  • a College of Medicine, Sulaiman Al Rajhi Colleges, P.O. Box 777, Bukairyah, Al-Qassim 51941, Saudi Arabia
  • b College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia
  • c College of Medicine, Sulaiman Al Rajhi Colleges, P.O. Box 777, Bukairyah, Al-Qassim 51941, Saudi Arabia
  • d College of Medicine, Sulaiman Al Rajhi Colleges, P.O. Box 777, Bukairyah, Al-Qassim 51941, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Mental health status may vary by nationality among expatriate workers; no conclusive data is available in Saudi Arabia. We invited expatriate nurses employed in governmental hospitals in Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia to fill out an electronic survey that contained questions on demography (including nationality), lifestyle, job, depression, anxiety, and stress (assessed with DASS-21 scale). We categorized each outcome into normal, mild to moderate, and severe, and used adjusted multinomial logistic regressions for analyses. Nurses (n = 999) were from India (54.1%), the Philippines/Indonesia (37.0%), Pakistan (4.9%) and Arab countries (4.0%). Indian nurses were three times (OR = 2.93; 95% CI 1.84, 4.67), Pakistani nurses were 2.5 times (OR = 2.54; 95% CI 1.07, 6.00), and Arab nurses were five times (OR = 5.65; 95% CI 2.40–13.31) more likely to suffer from severe depression compared to Filipino/Indonesian nurses (reference group). Results were similar for stress. Depression and stress varied significantly by nationality among expatriate nurses. © 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Author Keywords

Saudi Arabia Stress Depression nationality Anxiety Nurses

Index Keywords

anxiety controlled study Pakistan major clinical study stress Arab Indonesia nurse India Article Philippines mental health human Saudi Arabia
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85059538000&doi=10.1007%2fs10903-018-00853-7&partnerID=40&md5=cda662d3bd7d87e1b4808ac6164ffd64
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-018-00853-7
ISSN: 15571912
Original Language: English