Progression of Mental Health Issues During COVID-19

Autor: G. Sarvani, M. V. R. Raju
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Medico-Legal Update. 20
ISSN: 0974-1283
0971-720X
DOI: 10.37506/mlu.v20i4.1793
Popis: The COVID-19 virus, emerged at the end of 2019 began threatening the health and lives of millions ofpeople within few weeks. At present all regions of the world, declared lockdown for controlling highlycontagious and pandemic virus. During this lockdown period people are restricted to stay at home, for fewweeks. During the idle stay at home for very long hours, will cause mental health problems, like stress, fear,anxiety, depression and sleep problems. In this present study, the researcher, made an attempt to study theimpact on mental health of individuals during the lockdown period. The basic aim of this study: is to findout the viz. “Mental health problems” and its influence on ‘Gender, Age, Marital status and Occupation’differences. The data has been collected through online questionnaire and analyzed using “one way analysisof variance”, t-test and Correlation. The study found that significant mental health problems attributed morein female than male folk. There is significant social dysfunction in female than male. Middle age group i.e.(30-44) have more stress and pressure of future and job shortening are creating depression.
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