Open AccessAnxiety and wellbeing among healthcare workers during COVID-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Siddhartha Dutta,
Govind Mishra,
Hina Lal,
Tarun Kumar,
Kishna Ram,
Sneha Ambwani
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of pharmaceutical sciences review and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0976-044X
DOI - 10.47583/ijpsrr.2022.v73i01.019
Subject(s) - anxiety , pandemic , workload , health care , observational study , mood , covid-19 , burnout , scale (ratio) , medicine , psychiatry , psychology , family medicine , clinical psychology , disease , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , economic growth , operating system
Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the lives of everyone in one way or another. The healthcare workers being the group directly or indirectly working with the covid patients are at higher risk which can lead to increased anxiety among them. This is a prospective, cross-sectional, observational study among healthcare workers who were involved with patient care during the initial stages of the pandemic. Generalized Anxiety Disorder Assessment scale (GAD-7 scale) and WHO-5 wellbeing scale were distributed among healthcare workers through an online survey as a google form. Out of 95 participants who consented about 80% were frontline workers among which the majority (82%) were doctors and nursing staff (11.6%). The mean GAD-7 score observed was 6.06 ± 5.12 with a majority of the participants having minimal anxiety (44.44%). The mean WHO-5 wellbeing score was 55.83 ± 26.57. The present study showed a majority of the health care worker has minimal anxiety but the low mood was prevalent in many which could be due to increased workload and stress.