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Psychological impact of COVID-19 lockdown: An online survey from India

2020; Medknow; Volume: 62; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4103/psychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_427_20

1998-3794

Sandeep Grover, Swapnajeet Sahoo, Aseem Mehra, Ajit Avasthi, Adarsh Tripathi, Alka Subramanyan, Amrit Pattojoshi, G.S. Umamaheswara Rao, Gautam Saha, KK Mishra, Kaustav Chakraborty, NarenP Rao, Mrugesh Vaishnav, Om Prakash Singh, PK Dalal, RakeshK Chadda, Ravi Gupta, Shiv Gautam, Siddharth Sarkar, TS Sathyanarayana Rao, Vinay Kumar, YC Janardran Reddy,

Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a complete shut-down of the entire world and almost all the countries are presently in a "lockdown" mode. While the lockdown strategy is an essential step to curb the exponential rise of COVID-19 cases, the impact of the same on mental health is not well known.This study aimed to evaluate the psychological impact of lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic on the general public with an objective to assess the prevalence of depression, anxiety, perceived stress, well-being, and other psychological issues.It was an online survey conducted under the aegis of the Indian Psychiatry Society. Using the Survey Monkey platform, a survey link was circulated using the Whatsapp. The survey questionnaire included perceived stress scale, Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale to assess perceived stress, anxiety, depression, and mental well-being, respectively. The survey link was circulated starting from April 6, 2020 and was closed on April 24, 2020.During the survey, a total of 1871 responses were collected, of which 1685 (90.05%) responses were analyzed. About two-fifth (38.2%) had anxiety and 10.5% of the participants had depression. Overall, 40.5% of the participants had either anxiety or depression. Moderate level of stress was reported by about three-fourth (74.1%) of the participants and 71.7% reported poor well-being.The present survey suggests that more than two-fifths of the people are experiencing common mental disorders, due to lockdown and the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic. This finding suggests that there is a need for expanding mental health services to everyone in the society during this pandemic situation.