Bulaşıcı Hastalık Varlığı ile Anksiyete ve Depresyon İlişkisinin Değerlendirilmesi

Abstract

Objective: The psychosocial and economic effects of SARS-COV2 (COVID-19) are still considered to be problematic around the world. The effects of infection constitute a factor in the conducting study. The study aims to evaluate the psychological effects of individuals in infection. Material and Methods: Due to social distancing measures du-ring the COVID-19 pandemic, the survey and its answers were made online. There were 106 participants in the study and 58 out of 106 gave up-to-date answers. Personal Data Form, Beck Depression Scale and Beck Anxiety Scale were used. The replies were examined for socio-demographic fluxionals too. There were few sufferers in the groups, so fluxionals were converted to dual fluxionals and the Pe-arson chi-square test or Fisher’s Exact Test was used if the value was less in cells. Results: 43,1 percent of the participants have no symptoms of depression, but 27.6% showed mild, 15.5% moderate, and 13.8% se-vere depression. 5.2% of the participants showed slight, 37.9% mo-derate, 27.6% severe anxiety symptoms, 29.3% had no symptoms. A significant difference was observed between having children, over 35 years of age and the severity of depression symptoms (p=0.001, p=0.006, respectively). Conclusion: According to the results of the study, it was found that anxiety and depression symptoms improved/intensified in the existence of infectious disease.