Psychological Responses and Associated Factors during the Initial Stage of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars-2) Covid-19 Epidemic among the Community People

Authors

  • Janaki Dhami National Academy of Medical Sciences, Bir Hospital Nursing Campus,
  • Babita Adhikari Assistant Professor,National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS)
  • Sangam Shrestha National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS), Bir Hospital Nursing Campus, Associate Professor, National Academy of Medical Sciences, Bir Hospital Nursing Campus,
  • Pramila Dewan Professor, National Academy of Medical Sciences, Bir Hospital Nursing Campus

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Corona virus refers to sever acute respiratory syndrome corona virus that can be spread to humans through intermediate hosts such as bats and human-to-human transmission via virus-laden respiratory droplet. Widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. The objectives of the study was to assess the psychological responses and its associated factors during COVID-19 pandemic among community people.

METHOD: Descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out as the caseload is increasing day by day in Kathmandu valley in comparison to other states, this study was conducted among 382 people residing in selected community people in Kathmandu. Convenient sampling technique was used to select the sample. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis. Ethical approval was taken from Nepal, Health Research Council and Institutional Board committee of NAMS.

RESULT: The study showed that near to half (47.7%) of the respondents were of age group 21- 30. Majority (83.21%) of the respondents was female and regarding marital status, 59.6% of the respondents were single. Regarding feeling of worries, 40.31% of respondents felt that unnecessary worry has been made about the COVID-19 outbreak and 36.91% of the respondents answered staying 20-30 hours per day at home to avoid COVID-19. Result showed that 75.13% of the respondents had stress and only 7.85% had moderate stress. Regarding anxiety, 57.59% of the respondents had anxiety and only 8.90% had extremely severe anxiety. Similarly, 61.51% had depression and only 2.35% had extremely severe depression. In present study, it was shown that only 25.39% of the respondents had high for psychological impact of COVID-19.

CONCLUSION: Respondents had stress and anxiety but few had extremely severe depression. Study was shown that few the respondents had high for psychological impact of COVID-19.

KEY WORDS: Epidemic, Impact of events, Mental health Status, Psychological response, and SARSCorona virus and

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Published

2023-01-07

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 1 (2022)

Section

Orginal Articles