Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic is not over yet. And as much as the pandemic has had its effect in real-time, it is leaving behind its traces as well. The most prominent being the various types of stress and anxiety disorders that are now being found in a majority of the individuals, who have either suffered from COVID themselves or have witnessed it first-hand through a loved one. This study aims to find association between post COVID anxiety and stress and its association with demographic variables in people recovered from COVID-19. Based on the survey that was conducted, it was deduced that the majority of the volunteers were suffering from some sort of post-COVID stress and anxiety disorder. Women being large in number as compared to men. Most of the participants were involved in compulsive checking, avoidance behavior, self-monitoring and self-diagnosis in fear of contracting the virus again. People who had the worst COVID symptoms and were in the intensive care unit showed more stress levels than the rest. And healthcare workers showed relatively less, possibly because of their expertise in the management and containing the disease. The majority of the People were not aware of the post-COVID health conditions, collectively termed as Long COVID. Keywords: Post-COVID Anxiety, Post-COVID Stress, Long COVID, Pakistan
Highlights
IntroductionPandemic is an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affects a significant proportion of the population (Merriam, 2021)
Pandemic is an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and typically affects a significant proportion of the population (Merriam, 2021)
The study hypothesized that people who recovered from COVID-19 were most likely to have anxiety and stress
Summary
Pandemic is an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affects a significant proportion of the population (Merriam, 2021). First recorded pandemic in human history dates back to 6th Century AD when plague spread like wildfire across Europe, Asia, North Africa and Arabia and killed almost half of the world's population (Horgan, 2014). Another pandemic of significant proportion, Black death, in the 14th century killed almost 200 million people around the globe. Spanish flu in the early 20th century infected about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population with an estimated fatality of around 50 million worldwide (CDC, 2019) All these pandemics significantly altered the day to day living in those times and left everlasting effects on human history
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