Open AccessPsychological Impact of COVID-19, Isolation, and Quarantine: A Cross-Sectional Study
Author(s) -
Ghufran Jassim,
Mariam Jameel,
Edwina Brennan,
Manaf Ali Yusuf,
Nebras Ebrahim Hasan,
Yusuf Alwatani
Publication year - 2021
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.s311018
Subject(s) - medicine , quarantine , depression (economics) , distress , mental health , covid-19 , isolation (microbiology) , epidemiology , cross sectional study , psychiatry , social stigma , stigma (botany) , social isolation , case fatality rate , pandemic , demography , clinical psychology , disease , family medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , sociology , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , economics , macroeconomics
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in mandatory isolation and quarantine. The objective of this study was to describe and compare the psychological impacts of COVID-19 isolation and quarantine.