The study, titled "Preventive Healthcare: Impact on Corporate Sector" claims that depression is the first hard hit disease that was observed among the respondents, with 42.5 per cent of the corporate employees suffering from this lifestyle disease.
"The rate of emotional problems such as anxiety and depression has increased by 45-50% among corporate employees in the last eight years," it said.
The report is based on the views of 1,250 corporate employees from 150 companies across 18 broad sectors like media, telecom and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) etc.
The report included major cities like Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Hyderabd, Pune, Chandigarh, Dehradun et al.
"A little over 200 employees were selected from each city on an average. Delhi ranks first among cities afflicted from depression or general anxiety disorder followed by Bangalore (2nd), Mumbai (3rd), Ahemdabad (4th) Chandigarh (5th), Hyderbad (6th ) and Pune (7th ).
And, obesity is the second hard hit disease that was observed among the respondents, with 23% of the sample corporate employees suffering from it. High blood pressure (B.P) and diabetes are the third and fourth largest disease with a share of 9 per cent and 8 per cent respectively as suffered among the corporate employees.
Spondylosis (5.5 per cent), heart disease (4 per cent), cervical (3.0 per cent), asthma (2.5 per cent), slip disk (1 per cent) and arthritis (1.5 per cent) are the diseases that are mostly suffered by corporate employees. Nearly 38.5% of corporate employees sleep less than 6 hours a day due to high stressed levels that arise out of tough targets set for themselves by employers and cause diseases like depression, hypertension, diabetes etc.,
In terms of the physical fitness, it was found that around 57% of the employees in the private organization said they 'do not exercise at all', 23% do physical workout devoting less than 1 hour/week, 12% of the employees exercise for 1-3 hours/week, 8% of employees exercise for 3-6 hours/week and merely 7% stay fit by exercising for more than 6 hours/week.
Around 55 per cent of the survey respondents' fall under the age bracket of 20-29 years, followed by 30-39 years (26 per cent), 40-49 years (16 per cent), 50-59 years (2 per cent) and 60-69 years (approximately 1 per cent).
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