Psychosocial Impact of Lockdown Due to Novel Corona Virus COVID-19 among Medical Undergraduate Students | Chapter 12 | Research Highlights in Disease and Health Research Vol. 4

 The onset of Novel Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) which begun in the late 2019, in Wuhan in Hubei province of China by way of its extreme infectivity and fatality rate, had a extensive psychosocial impact on community. This was evidenced as bulk agitation, economic burden and economic losses. Mass fear of COVID-19, described as “Coronaphobia”, had generated a excess of psychiatric proofs across different layer of the society.As a result, this study was transported to define the psychosocial impact of COVID-19 on Medical graduates accompanying the goal of evaluating the reasons for breaking the lockdown and the level of psychosocial impact of confinement in isolation on Medical graduates during the COVID-19 confinement in isolation period.  A cross-divided prospective study was attended on 285 MBBS students from first to last period. Data was collected utilizing the Validated Psychosocial Impact Scale.  The outcomes explained the severity of the negative belongings of lockdown on the healing college pupils. 18.60% of students reacted normally to the COVID 19 universal lockdown position. Students in 47.72% showed a likely negative effect from lockdown. No scholar was found expected in the range of a severe negative impact of confinement in isolation, while 29.12 juniors had a mild negative impact and 4.56% had a moderate negative impact.

Author(s) Details:

Rupali Sarode,
Students Guidance Clinic, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Sawangi (M), Wardha- 442004, Maharashtra, India.

Prakash Mohite,
Department of Forensic Medicine, Datta Meghe Medical College, Wanadongri, Nagpur- 441110, Maharashtra, India.

Sourya Acharya,
Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Sawangi (M), Wardha- 442004, Maharashtra, India.

Samarth Shukla,
Department of Pathology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Wardha-442004, Maharashtra, India.

Shashank Gotarkar,
Department of Community Medicine, Datta Meghe Medical College, Wanadongri, Nagpur- 441110, Maharashtra, India.

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