Mental health issues and coping among health care workers during COVID19 pandemic: Indian perspective

OBJECTIVES: We assessed mental health issues among Indian health care workers (HCWs) and their coping strategies during COVID 19 pandemic. METHODOLOGY: An online survey was conducted in 348 HCWs using PHQ-SADS and Brief-COPE inventory. RESULTS: Depression, anxiety and somatic symptoms were present i...

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Autores principales: Singh, Jawahar, Sood, Mamta, Chadda, Rakesh K., Singh, Vishwajeet, Kattula, Dheeraj
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8118704/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34030026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102685
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author Singh, Jawahar
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description OBJECTIVES: We assessed mental health issues among Indian health care workers (HCWs) and their coping strategies during COVID 19 pandemic. METHODOLOGY: An online survey was conducted in 348 HCWs using PHQ-SADS and Brief-COPE inventory. RESULTS: Depression, anxiety and somatic symptoms were present in 54 %, 44.3 % and 54.6 % of HCWs and were more in those working in COVID19 areas. The nurses and female HCWs had more moderate to severe somatic symptoms. HCWs with moderate to severe symptoms used simultaneously both maladaptive and adaptive coping strategies. CONCLUSION: The HCWs during COVID19 pandemic have significant mental health issues and use multiple coping strategies.
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spelling pubmed-81187042021-05-14 Mental health issues and coping among health care workers during COVID19 pandemic: Indian perspective Singh, Jawahar Sood, Mamta Chadda, Rakesh K. Singh, Vishwajeet Kattula, Dheeraj Asian J Psychiatr Short Communication OBJECTIVES: We assessed mental health issues among Indian health care workers (HCWs) and their coping strategies during COVID 19 pandemic. METHODOLOGY: An online survey was conducted in 348 HCWs using PHQ-SADS and Brief-COPE inventory. RESULTS: Depression, anxiety and somatic symptoms were present in 54 %, 44.3 % and 54.6 % of HCWs and were more in those working in COVID19 areas. The nurses and female HCWs had more moderate to severe somatic symptoms. HCWs with moderate to severe symptoms used simultaneously both maladaptive and adaptive coping strategies. CONCLUSION: The HCWs during COVID19 pandemic have significant mental health issues and use multiple coping strategies. Elsevier B.V. 2021-07 2021-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8118704/ /pubmed/34030026 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102685 Text en © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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