Assessment of stress level in urban area’s during COVID-19 outbreak using critic and topsis: A case of Indian cities

Abstract

The paper deals with a multi-criteria analysis of stress intensity in the urban areas of India during COVID-19. For instance, a person may not be afraid of driving fast alone but might experience great fear when driving fast on the road with family. Such thoughts of panic and anxiety can overpower the person in these times of COVID-19. In these troubled times of Coronavirus pandemic, social distancing and the lockdown, it is usual for people to feel anxious and have no peace of mind. Thus stress triggers in many ways, i.e. staying healthy, concern for job etc. Some of the major economies in the world, including INDIA, are fighting to find a cure by way of vaccines to stop this pandemic. However, no luck to find a solution to end this pandemic so far is triggering the fear, anxiety and adding stress levels among many of us. The fear of pandemic and following guidelines of the lockdown in India have exacerbated symptoms like anxiety in those with existing stress levels. This paper provides a comparative analysis of TOPSIS in the sense of taking decisions to rate India’s major urban cities according to their feeling of overload. The CRITIC method has been used to determine the weights of the different forms of tension felt by the residents in urban cities. A quantitative study has been used to show a feasibility of the methods in weighing and MCDM in stress assessment.