Measurement of stress among doctors in surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Lahore General Hospital,Lahore

Background: stress is believed universal and inevitable part of human life and its happening is not avoidable. doctors face high degree of stress because they are directly dealing with the lives of the patients. stress among doctors affects not just their health and personal lives but also patients' satisfaction with them,medical services they provide and patients' compliance with the treatment. aim: to identify stressors and major stresses and there magnitude on doctors of surgical intensive care unit,as well as identification distressed working in surgical intensive care unit. method: in our study 40 doctors from surgical intensive care unit of lahore general hospital,lahore was included. this was a cross-sectional descriptive study. results: out of 40 doctors,57.5% were upto aged 35 years and 67.5% were males. 37.5% doctors were agreed somewhat about their heavy workload. 37.5% doctors said that they mostly have threats from their patient attendants. 37.5% said their working is unpleasant. conclusion: most of the doctors were not satisfied with their job,incentives and had more working hours as compare to other jobs. major stress reason is threat from patient's attendants. working hard on patients and getting undesirable results is also an important cause.