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@article{169217,
        author = {Shradhanjali Biswal and Tulasi Hansdah and Swagatama Ghosh and Mouli Pati and Sabrina Sultana and Shreya Bhattacharya and Suvam Samanta},
        title = {Prevalence of anxiety and depression among the post COVID-19 patients and families at the post COVID care center, KIMS Hospital Bhubaneswar: A Cross-Sectional Study},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2024},
        volume = {11},
        number = {6},
        pages = {1664-1676},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=169217},
        abstract = {Aim: COVID 19 pandemic has negatively affected many people’s mental health and created new barriers for people already suffering from mental illness. Aims include to assess the level of depression and anxiety among post COVID – 19 patients and their families and to find the association between depression and anxiety with the selected demographic variables, at the post COVID care center, KIMS hospital Bhubaneswar.
Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study with descriptive cross sectional research design with quantitative research design was undertaken among 95 samples selected by purposive sampling technique in post COVID care centre, KIMS Hospital, Bhubaneswar. Data were collected by interview method through structured demographic tools and standardized tools (Beck Depression Inventory and Beck Anxiety Scale) 
Results: This study was conducted to find out the knowledge regarding association of anxiety and depression among the post covid 19 patients and their families. The study reveals that most of the post covid patients are suffering from anxiety and depression by using anxiety level chart the graph showing the distribution of patients and their families depicts highest number of 39 belongs to low anxiety, 31 number of persons fall under moderate anxiety and 25 number of persons have high anxiety. From the study , we found that the distribution of post COVID patients and their families depicts highest number belongs to normal, 16 number of persons fall under mild depression, 15 number of persons are on the borderline, 12 number of persons have moderate depression, 9 persons have severe depression and 3 have extreme depression. About 50 of the post COVID patients and families were in the age group of 46-60. Highly significant difference was found among the demographic variables (p<0.05)
Conclusion: Post- covid-19 seems to be a multisystem disease, sometimes occurring after a relatively mild acute illness. The patient has a recovery from an episode of covid-19 and managed in the community or in a standard hospital ward. The findings of the study indicate that the COVID 19 pandemic was associated with mild psychological impact among the adults. There is a need to increase the awareness among the various media platforms about psychological changes and highlight the importance of seeking help and engaging in physical activity for the management of mental health disorders. Furthermore, an increase in awareness among the health care professionals in identifying and targeting the high risk groups of the population who are at high risk in developing mental health problems is vitally important. Adolescents and young adults have faced large disruptions to their education and living situations and may suffer lifelong economic impacts due to COVID 19. Thus, the COVID 19 pandemic is associated with highly significant levels of psychological distress that in many cases would meet threshold for clinical relevance. Mitigating the hazardous effects of COVID 19 on mental health is an international public health policy.},
        keywords = {anxiety, depression, families, patients, post COVID 19, prevalence.},
        month = {November},
        }