Grover Sandeep, Sahoo Swapnajeet, Mehra Aseem, Avasthi Ajit, Tripathi Adarsh, Subramanyan Alka, Pattojoshi Amrit, Rao G Prasad, Saha Gautam, Mishra K K, Chakraborty Kaustav, Rao Naren P, Vaishnav Mrugesh, Singh Om Prakash, Dalal P K, Chadda Rakesh K, Gupta Ravi, Gautam Shiv, Sarkar Siddharth, Sathyanarayana Rao T S, Kumar Vinay, Janardran Reddy Y C
Department of Psychiatry, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, Punjab, India.
Fortis Hospital, Mohali, Punjab, India.
Indian J Psychiatry. 2020 Jul-Aug;62(4):354-362. doi: 10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_427_20. Epub 2020 Jul 27.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a complete shut-down of the entire world and almost all the countries are presently in a "lockdown" mode. While the lockdown strategy is an essential step to curb the exponential rise of COVID-19 cases, the impact of the same on mental health is not well known.
This study aimed to evaluate the psychological impact of lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic on the general public with an objective to assess the prevalence of depression, anxiety, perceived stress, well-being, and other psychological issues.
It was an online survey conducted under the aegis of the Indian Psychiatry Society. Using the Survey Monkey platform, a survey link was circulated using the Whatsapp. The survey questionnaire included perceived stress scale, Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale to assess perceived stress, anxiety, depression, and mental well-being, respectively. The survey link was circulated starting from April 6, 2020 and was closed on April 24, 2020.
During the survey, a total of 1871 responses were collected, of which 1685 (90.05%) responses were analyzed. About two-fifth (38.2%) had anxiety and 10.5% of the participants had depression. Overall, 40.5% of the participants had either anxiety or depression. Moderate level of stress was reported by about three-fourth (74.1%) of the participants and 71.7% reported poor well-being.
The present survey suggests that more than two-fifths of the people are experiencing common mental disorders, due to lockdown and the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic. This finding suggests that there is a need for expanding mental health services to everyone in the society during this pandemic situation.
新冠疫情导致全球完全封锁，几乎所有国家目前都处于“封城”模式。虽然封城策略是遏制新冠病例呈指数级增长的关键一步，但其对心理健康的影响尚不明确。
本研究旨在评估新冠疫情封城措施对普通大众的心理影响，以评估抑郁、焦虑、感知压力、幸福感及其他心理问题的患病率。
这是一项在印度精神病学协会支持下开展的在线调查。通过Survey Monkey平台生成调查链接，并利用WhatsApp进行传播。调查问卷包括感知压力量表、患者健康问卷-9、广泛性焦虑障碍量表-7、沃里克-爱丁堡心理健康量表，分别用于评估感知压力、焦虑、抑郁和心理健康状况。调查链接于2020年4月6日开始发放，并于2020年4月24日关闭。
调查期间共收集到1871份回复，其中1685份（90.05%）回复纳入分析。约五分之二（38.2%）的参与者有焦虑情绪，10.5%的参与者有抑郁症状。总体而言，40.5%的参与者存在焦虑或抑郁症状。约四分之三（74.1%）的参与者报告有中度压力，71.7%的参与者报告幸福感较差。
本次调查表明，超过五分之二的人因封城和新冠疫情流行而出现常见精神障碍。这一发现表明，在疫情期间有必要向社会全体成员提供心理健康服务。
