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The Healthcare Workers (HCWs) comprises a wide variety of professions and occupations who provide some type of healthcare service, including such direct care workers like physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, respiratory therapists, dentists, pharmacists, occupational therapists, physical and behaviour therapists, as well as allied health professionals such as medical laboratory scientists, dieticians, and social workers. An exploratory study was conducted among 120 healthcare workers in hospitals as well as private clinics to investigate the impact of psychosocial stressors among healthcare workers. The specific objectives were to recognize the coping strategies adopted by them to eliminate the negative stressors affecting their performance and efficiency. A self-constructed and validated questionnaire was used to analyze the negative stressors. It was observed that patient-related activities such as boarding, billing, collecting patient reports and data are some of the monotonous repetitive tasks carried out by healthcare workers. These tasks lead to psychological fatigue among them indirectly leading to stress. Healthcare workers in the age 31 - 40 years have the most monotonous tasks as compared to other age groups and 100.8 (84%) of them always accept the situation when the work is piled up and continue with their routine work The results recognized the need and urgency to reduce the negative stressors for healthcare workers.