Mental health status among the family members of COVID-19 patients in Jabalpur District Madhya Pradesh: A Cross-sectional study

Sharma, Anshu; Singh, Tej Pratap; Bharti, Aditi; Sharma, Richa; Soni, Deepali; Dubey, Priyanka

doi:10.4103/jopcs.jopcs_7_20

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“…16 Also, our results are consistent with the existing literature regarding the levels of anxiety and depression in relatives of patients admitted to the ICU (not for COVID-19) and those about the family members of COVID-19 patients. [14][15][16] Our findings are also in line with those reported by Czeisler and cols, 50 using the PHQ-4 in caregivers of older adults with chronic conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. On the other hand, the percentage of family members with symptoms of anxiety in this study was higher than that reported by Gao et al 51 for the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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“…54,55 In addition, the elevated proportion of women with moderate and severe symptoms of anxiety and depression found in our study, was similar to that reported in the general population, 51 and informal primary caregivers. 13,15 As reported by Scott and cols, 13 the kinship is an important variable to consider, since a greater proportion of family members who were partners or parents, had severe and moderate symptoms of anxiety and depression compared with those having another type of relationship. It has been reported that mainly the partners in charge of caregiving activities may be those who present the greatest stress due to the high emotional involvement with the suffering family member.…”

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“…In addition, the patient's death has been associated with higher levels of depression and post-traumatic stress. 13,14 Specifically, caregivers of critically ill COVID-19 patients have not been as extensively studied, but it has been reported that between 40% and 60% of the caregivers of COVID-19 patients present depressive symptoms, with a fourtimes higher risk in females, 15 and these were accompanied by problems at the workplace. 16 These percentages were higher than those found in the general population during the pandemic, where 20.8% had anxiety and 27.5% had depression symptoms.…”

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Anxiety and Depression in Family Members of Critically Ill Covid-19 Inpatients: Brief Psychological Interventions via Telephone, an Exploratory Study

Caballero-Suárez,

Barrientos-Casarrubias,

Gutiérrez-Velilla

et al. 2023

JMDH

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This study aimed to assess the level of anxiety and depression in relatives of critically ill COVID-19 patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), and to perform an exploratory pilot study on the implementation of telephone psychological interventions to reduce the initial levels of anxiety and depression in this population. Patients and Methods: Family members of COVID-19 inpatients at ICU answered GAD-7, PHQ-9 and questions on sociodemographic data. A brief psychological intervention was applied via telephone based on the needs of the participants (with adequate adaptation, with symptoms of anxiety, depression, or both). After intervention, participants completed the Patient Global Impression of Change Scale. Results: A total of 1307 relatives were included (66.5% female), 34% and 29% had anxiety and depressive symptoms, respectively. These symptoms were associated with female gender, unemployment, and being the parent or partner of the patient. After intervention, 57.9% reported felt better, 31.3% a little better and 6.6% much better; and with emotional regulation techniques and psychoeducation, higher percentages of feeling better or much better were reported. Conclusion: Brief interventions to reduce the psychological impact of inpatient family members could be effective but will need to be explored further in future studies.

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Anxiety and Depression in Family Members of Critically Ill Covid-19 Inpatients: Brief Psychological Interventions via Telephone, an Exploratory Study

Caballero-Suárez,

Barrientos-Casarrubias,

Gutiérrez-Velilla

et al. 2023

JMDH

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Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among caretakers of COVID 19 and caretakers of non COVID 19 patients: A comparative study

Siraj,

Zulqarnain,

Kaur

et al. 2023

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All over the world, the public is being informed about the physical effects of COVID-19 infection and protocols are being made to prevent exposure to the corona virus and manage symptoms of COVID‐19 if they appear. However, the effects of this pandemic on individual’s mental health and behavior have not been studied in detail and are still not known. Efforts are being made to focus on understanding the clinical features, routes of transmission, epidemiology, and management of the COVID‐19 outbreak, there has been very little concern expressed over the effects on one's mental health and on strategies to prevent stress. The aim of this study was to assess the post traumatic stress disorder symptoms among the care takers of COVID-19 patients and care takers of non COVID-19 patients and compare the results to explore the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of the population associated with the COVID-19 patients. This may help in future in early detecting the post traumatic stress disorder associated with covid-19 or any other pandemic and may help in taking early measures to avoid it and improve the mental health of general population. The study finding revealed that among care takers of covid-19 patients majority of study subjects (93.3%) had complicated PTSD, (6.7%) had Diagnostic PTSD and none of the subjects had Partial PTSD whereas, among care takers of non covid-19 patients majority of study subjects (36.7%) had Partial PTSD, (26.7%) had complicated PTSD, (23.3%) had no PTSD and (13.3%) had diagnostic PTSD. This indicates that the covid-19 had more psychological impact on the care takers than any other life threatening disease. This may be due to fast dissemination of covid-19, more deaths attributed to the pandemic and care takers concern for his/her health. The study concluded that the covid-19 had more psychological impact on the care takers than any other disease conditions. So there is need to improve the strategies to reduce the risk of developing PTSD symptoms in this group of population.

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Mental health status among the family members of COVID-19 patients in Jabalpur District Madhya Pradesh: A Cross-sectional study

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Anxiety and Depression in Family Members of Critically Ill Covid-19 Inpatients: Brief Psychological Interventions via Telephone, an Exploratory Study

Anxiety and Depression in Family Members of Critically Ill Covid-19 Inpatients: Brief Psychological Interventions via Telephone, an Exploratory Study

Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among caretakers of COVID 19 and caretakers of non COVID 19 patients: A comparative study

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