Bhowmick Subhrojyoti, Parolia Saksham, Jana Shubham, Kundu Debarati, Choudhury Digbijoy, Das Nina, Ray Krishnanghsu, KarPurkaysatha Sujit
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, KPC Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Student, PharmD, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2021 Feb;10(2):978-984. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1385_20. Epub 2021 Feb 27.
Covid19 pandemic has resulted in drastic changes in human lives across the globe in the form of lockdown and an uncertain future. Information regarding the COVID-19-related anxiety and well-being among the public in India is very limited, especially from the state of West Bengal. We conducted this e-survey among the general population of West Bengal to assess the anxiety levels and the well-being status during lockdown. This information would be helpful to guide family physicians to screen patients for anxiety from the primary care level.
The main aim of this questionnaire based study was to assess the levels of anxiety and well-being status among the public including the frontline workers in West Bengal, India.
A prospective study was conducted with a validated e-questionnaire after Institutional Ethics committee approval, from 18 April, 2020 to 3 May, 2020. The questionnaire had 12 questions which included the Generalized Anxiety disorder (GAD)-7 scale and the WHO-5 scale (5 question-items) to assess the well-being of the participants. The survey link was distributed through the social networking sites of WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter and e-mails within West Bengal. Microsoft Excel (version 2016) was used to analyse the data.
A total of 355 responses were received 15.49% responders were observed to have anxiety and 37.74% participants had low well-being scores. Majority of healthcare workers (89.47%) were seen to have anxiety and a significant (52.03%) had a low well-being status.
We report the presence of anxiety and low well-being among the general population of West Bengal. It is important to understand the current psychological status of the public for the family physicians as many would visit them with vague symptoms. There is a dire need to screen all patients including front line workers visiting primary care physicians for mental health to ensure better clinical outcome.
新冠疫情以封锁和不确定的未来的形式给全球人类生活带来了巨大变化。关于印度公众中与新冠病毒相关的焦虑和幸福感的信息非常有限，尤其是来自西孟加拉邦的信息。我们在西孟加拉邦的普通人群中进行了这项电子调查，以评估封锁期间的焦虑水平和幸福感状况。这些信息将有助于指导家庭医生从初级保健层面筛查焦虑患者。
这项基于问卷的研究的主要目的是评估印度西孟加拉邦公众（包括一线工作者）的焦虑水平和幸福感状况。
在获得机构伦理委员会批准后，于2020年4月18日至2020年5月3日使用经过验证的电子问卷进行了一项前瞻性研究。该问卷有12个问题，包括广泛性焦虑障碍（GAD）-7量表和世界卫生组织-5量表（5个问题项），以评估参与者的幸福感。调查链接通过西孟加拉邦内的WhatsApp、领英、脸书和推特等社交网站以及电子邮件进行分发。使用微软Excel（2016版）分析数据。
共收到355份回复，观察到15.49%的回复者有焦虑情绪，37.74%的参与者幸福感得分较低。大多数医护人员（89.47%）被发现有焦虑情绪，且有相当比例（52.03%）的人幸福感较低。
我们报告了西孟加拉邦普通人群中存在焦虑和幸福感较低的情况。对于家庭医生来说，了解公众当前的心理状态很重要，因为许多人会带着模糊的症状去看他们。迫切需要对所有包括前往初级保健医生处就诊的一线工作者在内的患者进行心理健康筛查，以确保更好的临床结果。
