“A Cross sectional Study correlating wellness and anxiety in Covid-19 pandemic”

BACKGROUND: An outbreak of a new coronavirus pneumonia occurred in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. According to a study, during this pandemic, the prevalence rate of depression was at 50.7%, generalized anxiety was at 44.7%, and insomnia 36.1%. Study from Spain, concluded that psychological well-being is key for confronting COVID-19 and preventing mental disorders and coping with emotions. Thus, the extent to which wellbeing makes a difference in anxiety towards COVID-19 has not been explored so far, as per our knowledge. AIMS: 1. To assess the prevalence of corona virus anxiety and wellbeing in Covid-19 pandemic; 2. To assess the relation between corona virus anxiety and wellbeing in COVID-19 patients and general population. METHOD: There is total 345 patients, 54 were COVID positive and 291 COVID negative, were assessed after taking informed consent, 2 scales were used, the HERO wellness scale and Corona virus anxiety scale. RESULTS: 1. Significant difference of mean CAS scale scores between COVID positive and negative. 2. Significant difference of mean HERO scale scores between male and female but not in CAS scale. 3. CAS scale score was found to have significantly negative correlation with happy, enthusiastic, resilient and mental wellbeing but not with optimism. CONCLUSION: There is a significant negative correlation between wellbeing and anxiety during the covid 19 pandemic. Thus, there is a need of research in this aspect, to analyze the effect of betterment of wellbeing as a prophylactic measure against anxiety, especially during the pandemic.