Open AccessImpact of COVID-19 on medical practice
Author(s) -
Ekampreet Kaur,
Abhinav Sood,
Himanshu Tripathi,
Shipra Rohatgi,
Sanya Sharma,
Jaskaran Singh
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of health sciences (ijhs) (en línea)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2550-6978
pISSN - 2550-696X
DOI - 10.53730/ijhs.v6ns2.5800
Subject(s) - covid-19 , coping (psychology) , pandemic , distress , health care , psychology , mental health , front line , china , outbreak , medicine , clinical psychology , psychiatry , disease , political science , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , law
Initiating from China, the contagious virus namely COVID-19 spread at really high rate all over the world. In the starting stage, healthcare officials were considered as front-line warriors. The current study focuses on analysing the impact of COVID-19 on medical officials in order to identify the risks and protective factors of their mental health stress level. The parameters considered were socio-demographic variables, exposure to the patients suffering from COVID-19 and the strategies employed for coping with and deal with distress. A total of 100 healthcare professionals enrolled in the current study and completed the all the parameters. This study has demonstrated that positive attitude towards the stressed situation. Comprehensively, it is found that has been emerged due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study highlighted the major coping strategies employed by healthcare professionals to get rid of highly stressful situation caused by COVID-19 outbreak.