Emerging Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Due to Covid Pandemic

Abstract

Background: Mental disorders have been emerged as a major threat to human health. Covid pandemic causes fear globally and due to covid lockdown the people find themselves isolated in their homes due to which chances of developing psychological disorder have been increased in significant figures. Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental state in which the patient originates compulsion of repetition of tasks due to uncontrolled thoughts and fears. In this study, we have tried evaluate the chances to develop OCD among the Indian population due to various factors associated with covid. Method: A set of questions are formatted to form a questionnaire. The questions related to impact of pre and post covid breakdown on the mental health of people and evaluated the frequency of developing OCD among population. The survey was conducting using digital online platform of “Google form” and “Google docs”. Total 134 subject population was taken for the survey. Result: After evaluating responses, it was found that 43.2 c /o people still hesitate touching goods after lockdown while the frequency is 78.6c /o during lockdown, 18.2c /o people felt depression during lockdown and 0.8c /o people use hand sanitizer in more than 50 times a day frequency. 19.7c /o people lost their loved ones due to covid pandemic, 40c /o pharmacists lost their job due to covid. 78c /o people still prefer social distancing while in a public meeting with new people. Other frequencies in table 1 and 2 also supported that the chances of developing mental disorders such as OCD. Conclusion: Form the distribution analysis it was found that covid crises play a major role in developing various psychological disorders among population across worldwide. Due to lockdown imposed on the population globally the people feared more about covid pandemic and developed more precautions nature and behavior. Therefore, after descriptive analysis of the data collected in survey which is presented in table 1 and 2 it can be concluded that there is an increase chances of developing OCD and other mental disorder due to covid pandemic.