IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

ANXIETY STRESS AND DEPRESSION AMONG FARMERS

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Jagadevappa

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Agriculture has undergone profound changes, and farmers face a wide variety of stressors. The aim was to study the levels of anxiety, stress and depression symptoms among farmers compared with gender, and age groups. The participants in my study aged 30 to 60 years, were included in this cross-sectional study, compared farmers (women, n = 70. men, n = 70).The depression, anxiety, stress Scale - 42 (DASS - 42) to measure anxiety, depression and stress symptoms. Both male and female farmers had experience of depression symptoms than the farmers the gender difference levels of anxiety symptoms did not differ. The differences in depression symptom levels between farmers and anxiety, depression and stress population increased with age. In an age-adjusted ANOVA analysis, for depression, when compared with the gender difference male and female both are have a same depression, anxiety and stress in this total mean score in male 28.0000 and in female total mean score is 28.1571 so in this study there is no significant difference in gender.

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