Caregiver Perceived Stress Survey at Jimma Medical Center, 2024

A survey of 409 primary caregivers of patients with mental illness at Jimma Medical Center in Ethiopia, conducted from May 6 to June 7, 2024. The data was collected via face-to-face interviews using the Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS-10) questionnaire and analyzed with SPSS version 26. The dataset was authored by Nuguse Daraje and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling factors associated with caregiver stress based on education level, patient aggression, and care burden.
• Assessing the prevalence of perceived stress levels (high, moderate, low) among a specific caregiver population.
• Evaluating the relationship between caregiver coping strategies and reported stress scores.

Strengths

• Includes results from 409 survey participants, providing a specific sample size.
• Reports specific prevalence figures: 13.2% high stress, 62.1% moderate stress, and 24.7% low stress.
• Identifies statistically associated factors (e.g., lack of formal education, patient aggressive behavior) with odds ratios and confidence intervals.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data collection used a convenience sampling method, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Nuguse Daraje.

Collection Method

Cross-sectional study using the Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS-10) questionnaire via face-to-face interviews.

Time Range

Data collected from May 6 to June 7, 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 17:27:53; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Jimma Medical Center, Ethiopia.