Abstract:
A cross-sectional descriptive study was applied to investigate employees' mental health and factors that were related to their mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic. Participants were employees of a fast-moving consumer goods business in Bangkok. Authors sent online questionnaires to 127 employees following the inclusion criteria. The complete data from 124 employees (97.67%) were analyzed further. We collected data during June July 2022. The questionnaires included 3 parts; demographic data and information about work, happiness at work scale, and Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21). The descriptive statistic was performed to explain factors, e.g., numbers, percentage, mean, standard deviation, min, max. Chi-square test, Fishers exact test, Pearsons correlation, and Logistic regression examined the association between factors that were associated with mental health issues. A 124-complete data were applied to the study. Most of the employees had a normal level of mental health. However, mental health issues of approximately one-third of them were detected including anxiety (30.6%), depression (29.0%), and stress (25.8%). The relevant factors with mental health were the emotional factors, working, happiness at work, responsibility for family expenses, help from mental health professionals, and using sleeping pills during the past 1 year. The predictors of mental health issues were significantly associated with the emotional factors, e.g., despair, dismal feelings, angry feeling, the working factors, e.g., low satisfaction with the previous year's performance appraisal, responsible for assigning, and happiness at work. Additionally, using sleeping pills during the past 1 year can predict anxiety and depression, however, requesting help from mental health professionals can predict stress. Thus, employees who work at home should pay attention to mental health.