Evaluating the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on the psychological health of young adults in India
International Journal of Public Health Science
; 12(1):311-321, 2023.
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in English
| Scopus | ID: covidwho-2203618
ABSTRACT
COVID-19 pandemic has affected the mental health of individuals, particularly young adults. Using the ‘strength and difficulty questionnaire 17+ extended version', we studied the severity of psychological problems and the resultant distress in young adults;the relationship between the ‘difficulty' and ‘impact' scores;and the effect of distress in terms of a number of day-to-day activities affected during a pandemic. Data was collected from 743 college/university students (December 2020-February 2021) in India. Descriptive, relative frequencies, and nonparametric tests are applied here. Females were facing more psychological behavioral problems as compared to males as the p-value is less than 0.001. Males with age<20 years were least affected by COVID-19. Day-to-day activities are affected by almost 45% of young adults because of distress. ‘difficulty' and ‘impact' severity bands were significantly different from the previous standard proportions. No significant association was there between ‘difficulty' and ‘impact' scores (p-value<0.001). 53% of those contracting COVID-19 had severe distress as against 45% of those who did not. 46% of the respondents were in the ‘abnormal' category and 59 out of 327 were facing 'a great deal' problems in more than two areas. © 2023, Intelektual Pustaka Media Utama. All rights reserved.
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International Journal of Public Health Science
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2023
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