Background: Stress has touched almost all professions posing threat to mental and physical
health. India being the Information Technology (IT) hub with lakhs involved as IT
Professionals, there is a need to assess prevalence of professional stress, depression and
problem alcohol use and understand their association. Objectives:(1) To screen for the
prevalence of professional stress, risk for depression and harmful alcohol use among
software engineers.(2) To study the association between professional stress, risk for …