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Level of anxiety and depression among health-care professionals amidst of coronavirus disease: A web-based survey from India
BACKGROUND: The spread of novel coronavirus diseases-2019 (COVID-19) across the world and its associated morbidity and mortality confronted the nations by various means. COVID19 pandemic had significant psychological effects not only on the general population but also on health-care workers (HCWs)....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8719567/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35071614 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_162_21 |
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author | Khan, Haseeb Srivastava, Rahul Tripathi, Neeraj Uraiya, Dharmendra Singh, Astha Verma, Ruchi |
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description | BACKGROUND: The spread of novel coronavirus diseases-2019 (COVID-19) across the world and its associated morbidity and mortality confronted the nations by various means. COVID19 pandemic had significant psychological effects not only on the general population but also on health-care workers (HCWs). Hence, we aimed to found the level of anxiety and depression among health-care professionals amidst coronavirus. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study conducted on 829 participants including doctors and nurses and other medical staff who were posted in the COVID ward and COVID intensive care unit using a well-structured questionnaire through the Google Forms. The two scales used to measure anxiety and depression among the HCWs were the Hamilton anxiety scale (HAM-A) and the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), Cronbach's alpha of HAM A is 0.921 and Cronbach's alpha of PHQ 9 is 0.851. Data analysis was done using SPSS 26, Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test were used to establish the association between categorical independent and dependent variables. RESULTS: The results of this study demonstrate that anxiety and depression were significantly higher in doctors and staff nurses as compared to other medical staff. According to HAM-A, 65.1% of respondents were in the mild category, 22.0% mild to moderate, and 12.9% moderate to severe. The HAM-A (P = 0.022) and PHQ-9 (P = 0.001) for anxiety and depression respectively were significantly higher in females. The means of the scales got increased after postings in the corona wards. CONCLUSION: Concerning the high occurrence of anxiety and fear among health-care professionals, appropriate psychological/psychiatric intervention necessitates and emphasizes the need to implement urgent measures to prevent further progress to severe mental health disorder. |
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spelling | pubmed-87195672022-01-20 Level of anxiety and depression among health-care professionals amidst of coronavirus disease: A web-based survey from India Khan, Haseeb Srivastava, Rahul Tripathi, Neeraj Uraiya, Dharmendra Singh, Astha Verma, Ruchi J Educ Health Promot Original Article BACKGROUND: The spread of novel coronavirus diseases-2019 (COVID-19) across the world and its associated morbidity and mortality confronted the nations by various means. COVID19 pandemic had significant psychological effects not only on the general population but also on health-care workers (HCWs). Hence, we aimed to found the level of anxiety and depression among health-care professionals amidst coronavirus. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study conducted on 829 participants including doctors and nurses and other medical staff who were posted in the COVID ward and COVID intensive care unit using a well-structured questionnaire through the Google Forms. The two scales used to measure anxiety and depression among the HCWs were the Hamilton anxiety scale (HAM-A) and the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), Cronbach's alpha of HAM A is 0.921 and Cronbach's alpha of PHQ 9 is 0.851. Data analysis was done using SPSS 26, Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test were used to establish the association between categorical independent and dependent variables. RESULTS: The results of this study demonstrate that anxiety and depression were significantly higher in doctors and staff nurses as compared to other medical staff. According to HAM-A, 65.1% of respondents were in the mild category, 22.0% mild to moderate, and 12.9% moderate to severe. The HAM-A (P = 0.022) and PHQ-9 (P = 0.001) for anxiety and depression respectively were significantly higher in females. The means of the scales got increased after postings in the corona wards. CONCLUSION: Concerning the high occurrence of anxiety and fear among health-care professionals, appropriate psychological/psychiatric intervention necessitates and emphasizes the need to implement urgent measures to prevent further progress to severe mental health disorder. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8719567/ /pubmed/35071614 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_162_21 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Journal of Education and Health Promotion https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Khan, Haseeb Srivastava, Rahul Tripathi, Neeraj Uraiya, Dharmendra Singh, Astha Verma, Ruchi Level of anxiety and depression among health-care professionals amidst of coronavirus disease: A web-based survey from India |
title | Level of anxiety and depression among health-care professionals amidst of coronavirus disease: A web-based survey from India |
title_full | Level of anxiety and depression among health-care professionals amidst of coronavirus disease: A web-based survey from India |
title_fullStr | Level of anxiety and depression among health-care professionals amidst of coronavirus disease: A web-based survey from India |
title_full_unstemmed | Level of anxiety and depression among health-care professionals amidst of coronavirus disease: A web-based survey from India |
title_short | Level of anxiety and depression among health-care professionals amidst of coronavirus disease: A web-based survey from India |
title_sort | level of anxiety and depression among health-care professionals amidst of coronavirus disease: a web-based survey from india |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8719567/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35071614 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_162_21 |
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