Psychological Impact among COVID-19 Positive Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Cross-sectional Study

Introduction: Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak is one of the biggest medical challenges to humankind in recent times, started from China in December 2019, and had spread to almost all the countries of the world The social, psychological and economic fissures exposed by the pandemic resulted in mass disruption in human behaviour population This is pushing them towards more stress Aim: To analyse the anxiety and depressive symptoms in COVID-19 positive patients Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 325 COVID positive patients who were admitted in isolation ward in tertiary care centre and were enrolled in this study, out of which 18 refused to give the consent and 5 were already taking psychiatric medications and were excluded Telephonic contact was not established with rest of the 5 patients After ethical clearance, the anxiety and depressive symptoms were assessed by using Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D), respectively by using paired t-test Results: Maximum patients belonged to age group of 21-40 years (54 9%) Maximum patients were males (70%) Almost 3/4th of the population (64%) had depressive symptoms of different severity and 61% had anxiety symptoms Significant association of anxiety symptoms was seen with gender (p=0 001) and marital status (p=0 002) No association with depressive symptoms was seen with gender (p=0 087) and marital status (p=0 399) Conclusion: COVID-19 had significant impact on the patients More than half of the population had showed the psychological issues in the form of anxiety and depression Males and married patients were affected more with both anxiety and depressive symptoms [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Journal of Clinical & Diagnostic Research is the property of JCDR Research & Publications Private Limited and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use This abstract may be abridged No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract (Copyright applies to all Abstracts )