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Background: It is well documented that work environment influences overall life quality of workers including mental health and, in this generalization, medical personnel are not exceptional. Different studies showed that encouraging work environment has a positive impact on the workers’ mental health while the poor environment inflicts the reverse. International and many native work legislations have stressed on the right of the workers in having favorable working environment. The medical professional personnel have unique work environment that exposes them to different stressors. Depression risk factors can stem out from the unfavorable work environment rendering many of the medical personnel as victimized to it. Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of work environment on depression among the medical personnel in Alhasaheesa locality in Gazira, Sudan. Methodology: This study enrolled 208 out of 428 medical personnel in Governmental Health Facilities in Alhasaheesa Locality, Al Gazira State, Sudan. The required data were collected by using predesigned closed ended question questionnaire through self-instruction. The impact of work environment on depression among them was assessed according to HAD scale. Results: Gender wise, the 208 participants included 123 (59.1%) females and 85 (40.9%) males with age ranging from 20 to 59 years and an average of 29.8 years. The participants included medical specialists (5.8%), medical officers (21.6%), pharmacists (1.4%), nurses (33.2%), medical assistants (1.9%), midwives (7.7%) and others (28.4%). They had variable duration of employment ranging from less than five years to more than 20 years. The risk factors significantly associated with depression were years of employment (p= 0.001), work facilities (p= 0.025) and job satisfaction (p= 0.048). Daily working hours and work relations were not significantly associated with depression (p= 0.524, 0.274 respectively). Conclusion: The risk factors in this study associated with work environment can be amended by carrying out thorough situation analysis and planning workable executable solutions. The factors that were not associated with depression can be augmented to help in buffering the depressive factors. Further studies are needed to explore the full extent of the problem so as to manage different stressors.
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