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Neeraj Kancherla1, Sameer Krishna Prasad Garlapati1, Yeswanth Kumar Raparla1
1MBBS Interns, King George Hospital, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Aim:
The purpose of our study was to examine the mental health status of patients with coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) who were hospitalized.
Methodology:
In this cross-sectional study, 106 inpatients with COVID-19 who had stable clinical conditions were evaluated psychologically by questionnaire: Depression, anxiety, and stress scales-21 (DASS-21).
Results:
About one-third of patients had comorbidities. In totality, 97.2% of patients with COVID-19 had some grade of depression. Extent of depression, assessed with the help of the DASS questionnaire, was 85.8%. All patients (100%) had serious (0.9%) and grave level of (99.1%) anxiety. Regarding to stress levels, 97.1% of patients had some degree of stress. In the worsening of stress category, 84.9% of patients had high-stress levels.
Conclusion:
The presence of such increased prevalence and seriousness of psychiatric disorders among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 underlines the necessity for serious consideration to the mental health standing of these patients.
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