Level of depression, anxiety and stress among covid-19 patients at SAVAR

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the level of depression, anxiety, and stress and determine their association with sociodemographic among COVID-19 patients at Savar. Objectives: To identify the level of depression, anxiety, and stress among COVID-19 patients at Savar. Method: The study design was cross-sectional. A total of 102 samples were selected conveniently for this study from the Savar Upazila, Savar, and Dhaka. Data was collected by using a questionnaire, and the DASS 21 Scale. Descriptive statistics using SPSS software version 22.0 were used for data analysis. Result: In this study, the mean age of the participants was (33.07 ± 11.33) years. Females were about 37.3% (n = 38) and males were about 63% (n = 62.7). Among the participants, 35.3% had moderate depression, 18.6% had mild depression, and 17.6% had severe level of depression. Among the participants, 33.3% had severe anxiety, 30.4% had moderate anxiety, and 16.7% had extremely severe anxiety. Among the participants, 35.3% had mild stress, 22.5% had moderate stress, and 22.5% had less mild stress. The researcher found PValue of age , education, family member, isolation, how long in isolation, admitted to the hospital, diagnosed COVID 19 in the family, admit in ICU are less than 0.05 which means this are significant with depression. The researchers discovered a link between occupations, admitted to the hospital are correlated with anxiety. And get association between monthlyincome, received treatments with stress.Conclusion: This study provides a snapshot for level of depression, anxiety, and stress among COVID-19 patients. Here, researchers tried to find out the relation between depression, anxiety, and stress with some sociodemographic factors, and the result was that there were some relations between them, which were supported by some other studies. Key words: COVID-19, Depression, Anxiety, Stress. Word count: 10107