Open Access<p>Depression, Anxiety and Associated Factors Among Chronic Medical Patients Amid COVID-19 Pandemic in Mettu Karl Referral Hospital, Mettu, Ethiopia, 2020</p>
Author(s) -
Mohammedamin Hajure,
Mandaras Tariku,
Mustefa Mohammedhussein,
Aman Dule
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2021
pISSN - 1176-6328
DOI - 10.2147/ndt.s281995
Subject(s) - medicine , depression (economics) , anxiety , referral , odds ratio , confidence interval , cross sectional study , pandemic , population , mental health , logistic regression , psychiatry , covid-19 , disease , family medicine , environmental health , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , macroeconomics , pathology
COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on the mental health condition of the world's population. Although the direct effect of COVID-19 on the mental health status of chronic medical patients is well understood, the burden of depression and anxiety on patients with chronic medical conditions is not well studied yet. Therefore, the study aimed to assess the prevalence of depression, anxiety and associated factors among chronic medical patients amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Mettu Karl Referral Hospital, Mettu, Ethiopia.