A Descriptive Study to Assess the Social Challenges faced by COVID-19 Warriors Posted at a COVID Care Unit in a Selected Hospital

Introduction: Health care workers act as front-line heroes during the pandemic, but during this period, they are facing problems from the society and families as everyone is thinking they are carriers of the disease. Such an unfavourable situation can develop bad social behaviour, social loneliness, social isolation, anxiety, fear, sadness, anger, frustration, and low esteem towards work, because of the fear of infection.Objectives: The study was conducted to assess the social challenges faced by COVID-19 warriors posted at a COVID-19 care unit and to seek the association between social life challenges faced by them and selected demographic variables.Methodology: The quantitative approach using a descriptive research design was incorporated to conduct the study. 60 COVID-19 warriors posted at a COVID care unit were selected using purposive sampling. The tool used for conducting the study was a rating scale to assess the social challenges faced by them. Online Google survey forms were distributed to samples using their e-mail ids. Result: For data analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics were used. The study shows that 58.3% experienced bad behaviour from society (Figure 1 and Table 2), 55.0% experienced severe social loneliness (Figure 2 and Table 2) and 25% experienced moderate social loneliness (Figure 2 and Table 2). 61.67% of study subjects were severely anxious (Figure 4 and Table 2) and 76.7% were in severe fear (Figure 5 and Table 2). There exists a statistically significant association between social challenges and selected demographic variables (Table 3).Conclusion: The study concluded that COVID-19 warriors posted at a COVID care unit experienced social challenges associated with their demographic variables.