Depression, Anxiety and Stress among healthcare workers during the curved 19 pandemic

Not yet recruiting

Conditions: All the healthy health care workers HCW working in our COVID care center

Registration Number: CTRI/2020/07/026798

Lead Sponsor: DrRidhima Sharma

Brief Summary: The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus pandemic has taxed an unrivaled psychological stress substantially affecting the medical health care workers. However, thereâ€™s a definitive lack of an evidence- based assessment and mental health attributes in the front-line health workers. To notify this gap,the current study was performed to evaluate the prevalence of depression, stress and anxiety among the HCWs and its correlation with various factors.

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Not Yet Recruiting

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 300

Inclusion Criteria

The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus pandemic has taxed an unrivalled psychological stress substantially affecting the medical health care workers.
However, there is a definitive lack of an evidence-based assessment and mental health attributes in the front-line health workers.
To notify this gap, the current study was performed to evaluate the prevalence of depression, stress and anxiety among the health care workers and its correlation with various factors.
Methods: The current cross-sectional study was conducted in 200 HCW in our tertiary care center.
The primary outcomes were to compare the prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress among the health care workers.
Thereafter we used multivariate regression to determine the factors correlated to either depression, anxiety or stress.
The secondary outcome was to compare DASS (depression, anxiety, stress) between the first line worker and the second line worker and other commonly associated factors responsible for increased DASS-21 scores.

Exclusion Criteria

Healthcare workers who were not willing to participate or already have clinically diagnosed depression anxiety or any other mental illness were excluded from the study.

Study & Design

Study Type: Observational

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The Primary outcome were to compare the prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress among the health care workers and administrative staff. Thereafter we used multivariate regression to determine the factors correlated to either depression, anxiety or stress.	1 week
The secondary outcome was to compare DAS between the first line worker and the second line worker and multiple factors attributing to increased DAS were noted.	1 week

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The secondary outcome was to compare DAS between the first line worker and the second line worker and multiple factors attributing to increased DAS were noted.

Trial Locations

Locations (1): Super Speciality Paediatric hospital and postgraduate teaching institute
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Nagar, UTTAR PRADESH, India
Super Speciality Paediatric hospital and postgraduate teaching institute
🇮🇳Nagar, UTTAR PRADESH, India
Dr Ridhima Sharma
Principal investigator
08054549458
drridhimasharma@yahoo.com