Since the COVID 19 epidemic was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the health sector has been working tirelessly. FLHCWs are people who work closely with COVID-19 cases and see the misery that the virus causes in patients, which can have a direct impact on mental health.
The study's goal was to evaluate COVID anxiety, stress, and work and social adjustment, as well as the factors that influence them, among FLHCWs working in a COVID care centre.
Setting and Design: This was a hospital-based study that took place in a Covid Care centre in Kolar for four months from July to October 2020.
Materials and Methods: Study participants were frontline health care workers (FLHCW), such as doctors and nurses, who worked in COVID-related wards and out-patient departments and were part of the Covid care of patients who had not contracted the virus. The sample size was estimated using the results of a prior study, which yielded 360 participants.
Statistical Analysis Used: Descriptive statistics were used to look for associations between components when they were needed. The Chi-square test was used, with a level of significance of less than 0.05. The factors were identified using multinomial logistic regression.
Results: Of the 362 FHCWs, 142 (39.2%) were between the ages of 21 and 25, 243 (67.1%) were female FHCWs, 86 (23.8%) were Junior Residents, 105 (29%) were working in the COVID ward, 187 (51.7%) were working more than 8 hours, 189 (52.2%) considered their workload during COVID duties to be medium, and 265 (73.2%) followed Regular working Shifts 45 FLHCWs (12.4%) showed high stress levels out of 362 total. In terms of work and social adjustment, 178 people (49.2%) had severe psychopathology, whereas 196 people (54.1%) had Corona anxiety.
Conclusions: Work and social adjustment were found to be statistically associated with gender, occupation, and marital status. Working hours per day, employment, perceived burden during duties, regular shifts during COVID duties, and hours of rest during COVID duties were just a few of the parameters identified to have a statistically significant relationship with Corona anxiety.
The need of recognising the psychological implications of newer disease outbreaks among health care personnel working in treatment centres is stressed in this study, although it is still neglected by governing policies and hospital authorities in order to maintain healthy psychological well-being. In order to retain the health worker resource adequate to combat the pandemic until the arrival of a vaccine or curative drug, health institutions dealing with such pandemics should test FLHCWs for mental health concerns on a regular basis and intervene early.Author(S) Details
Pradeep Tarikere Satyanarayana
Department of Community Medicine, Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research, Kolar, Karnataka, India.
Ravishankar Suryanarayana
Department of Community Medicine, Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research, Kolar, Karnataka, India.
Prasanna Kamath
Department of Community Medicine, Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research, Kolar, Karnataka, India.
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