Online cross-sectional survey to assess the mental health and coping strategies used by health professionals during covid-19 pandemic

ABSTRACT

Background: COVID-19 poses a great challenge to the global health Care system all over the world. The contribution of your frontline worker toward defeating the pandemic is immeasurable on the other hand the health care professional also burdens up and faces disturbance in the mental and physical health. Methodology: Study was conducted with an objective to assess the mental health and coping strategies used by health professionals during COVID-19 Pandemic. A cross sectional survey design was used and sample was collected by Snowball sampling technique from different state and union territories of India. A total 106 healthcare professionals responded and enrolled themselves in the study. Result: in present study most of the participants 53(50.0%) reported moderate depression, 53(50.0%) moderate anxiety and 49 (46.2%) had mild stress. The data analysis reported that maximum numbers of participants had access to psycho-educational material like leaflet, brochure and books provided by the institution (60.4%) compared to (39.6%) who did not get this privilege, next, majority of the participant (76.4%) had availability of resources like internet, TV, newspaper, social media etc. More than half of the participants were able to avail counselling services (55.7%), psychotherapy (63.2%) etc. Conclusion: This pandemic has led to anxiety, stress, depression and other mental health issues among the people especially in health care profession. Mental health problems like stress, anxiety and depression can adversely affect the physical health of the health professionals as well as their competency to care for sick.