A Study on the psychological stress, perceived social support and coping strategies of junior doctors working in different medical colleges in Kolkata during the period of current COVID-19 pandemic.

BACKGROUND: -: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the healthcare workers into an unprecedented situation. They are having increased workload along with fear of infection of this highly contagious disease leading to a psychological distress. Recent studies have showed pooled prevalence of depression and anxiety to be as high as 22.8% and 23.2% respectively. Perceived Social support and coping strategies affect the outcome of the stress perceived. AIMS & OBJECTIVES: -: This descriptive, observational and cross-sectional study is done to assess the prevalence of perceived stress, depression and anxiety among healthcare worker and to find there association with the perceived social support and coping strategies used. METHODS:-: Data was collected online. All the junior doctors were sent google forms containing questions of Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21item scale) scale, Multidimensional Scale for social support and Brief Resilient Coping scale. Link of the form was sent to all available contacts and all the eligible responses, taking into consideration of inclusion and exclusion criteria, were considered for analysis. RESULT:-: High prevalence of anxiety and depression were found among healthcare worker with significant correlation to the perceived social support and coping strategies used. CONCLUSION:-: This study found out that prevalence of depression and anxiety among healthcare worker is high in this covid era.