Open AccessPSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF COVID ON HEALTH CARE WORKER DUE TO COVID 19 PANDEMIC IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL : A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY
Author(s) -
Anjana Kumari,
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Manish Kumar,
Arati Shivhare,
Vikash Chandra Mishra,
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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of advanced research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2320-5407
DOI - 10.21474/ijar01/13927
Subject(s) - anxiety , medicine , cross sectional study , pandemic , depression (economics) , covid-19 , health care , analysis of variance , test (biology) , family medicine , psychiatry , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , paleontology , pathology , biology , economics , macroeconomics , economic growth
Background: Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused health crisis. It is important to assess the status of stress, depression and anxiety among medical health care worker (HCWs). Material and Methods: A cross sectional study based on online questionnaire wherein sample size was 160, and HAMD, HAMA and PSS questionnaire was applied and also a self made questionnaire was applied to assess the strategies to cope with covid stress, it consists of 3 items. Data analysed using SPSS software variables compared by using Chi-square/Fishers exact test. Students t-test was used to compare mean values in the two independent groups, and one-way ANOVA was used for more than two groups. The variables with P < 0.05 were considered as statistically significant. Result: A total of 160 sample included, in which 94 (58.1%) were medical staff and 66 (41.25%) were administrative staff. Significant difference was noted in sex(p= 0.004), educational status(p= 0.000), monthly income(p= 0.000), high risk exposure(p= 0.000) and contact with COVID positive suspect or case(p=0.000).There were significant difference noted in depression, anxiety and stress scale as compared to the administrative staff group (p = 0.004, p= 0.004 and p= 0.007) respectively. Conclusions: During this COVID-19 pandemic, HCWs reported a high prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress than the administrative staff.