Abstract
Objective. The aim of this research was access the effect of lockdown on the psychological health status of people. Methods. This was an online questionnaire survey developed and circulated among people using snow-ball sampling techniques from April to mid of June 2020. The online survey collected information on demographic data and psychosocial health elements. Results. This study included 604 peoples (59.1% were female and 40.8% were females) of Haryana. Of the total respondents, 57.6% were in age group of 18-30 years, 40.8% were in 31-45 years and 1.5% was in 45-60 years group. 90% of people have normal self- reported BMI, 6.5% were overweight, 3% were underweight and 0.5% people have obesity. 74% respondents were graduate, 11.5% postgraduate, 3.2% were PhD, and 9.2% were 12th pass. 31.8% were unemployed, 35.9% were student, 15.8% regular government employee, 4.7% were self- employed and 2.5% were adhoc/contract employee. 79.5% people reside in urban community and 16% in rural community and 4.5% in semi-urban area. Most of the respondents have agree with the statement that lockdown induced constant sense of insecurity (72.9%); anxiety (58.7%),psychological stress (66.4%); work & financial stress (52.4%), phobia of infection (50.9%); stigma towards symptomatic people, which might be because of simple flu (55.2%); stress from watching & listening COVID-19 news (38.6%); stress from practice of prevention measure (31.9%). Most of people also agree with that behavior-change modification (follow preventive regulations) can improve mental stress (53.2%). Conclusion. Majority of people has realized the lockdown have significant impact on psychological health status of people.
Highlights
COVID-19 [corona virus disease 2019] epidemic was began at Wuhan, China in December 2019 and rapidly propagate to other countries by migration of the people [1]
Out of 604 respondents, 72.8% agreed that they had feeling of insecurities for oneself and family, they report that they feel anxiety due to lack of social contacts and meetings. 13.2% respondents were strongly agreed that they were living with the phobia of going out during lockdown period. 70.3% respondents were under mental pressure
Emotional and social functioning of the population got affected by the lockdown period during COVID-19 and due to increase in load of work at home and other financial problems, people were more prone to stress and anxiety
Summary
COVID-19 [corona virus disease 2019] epidemic was began at Wuhan, China in December 2019 and rapidly propagate to other countries by migration of the people [1]. By 30th January, 2020, people in India started get infected by the COVID-19 virus which is highly contagious and the cases were start increasing exponentially. Since February 2020, epidemic prevention come in concern and since the real initiation of global concern takes place, indicating enormous impacts in almost every aspect. This out-breaking increasing the burden on hospitals, doctors and global economy, the impact of this infection on global psychological health is being neglected [3]
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