Short and Long-term Psychological Impact of Covid-19 on The Egyptians

• Conditions: Mental Health Issue
• Interventions: Diagnostic Test: A questionnaire or scales

• Registration Number: NCT04344834
• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University

Brief Summary

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently declared coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) a public health emergency of international concern. Impact of the pandemic of covid-19 on the mental health of patients, health care workers and general population would be affected.

Detailed Description

Health care workers and general population will be included in the study. A questionnaire will be used to assess their knowledge and practices regarding covid-19 and its impact on mental health.

Patients Mental health will be assessed regarding anxiety, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder, sleep disorder will be assessed.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-04-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-04-13
• Study First Posted: 2020-04-14
• Study Start: 2020-06-15
• Status Verified: 2021-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-03-16
• Last Update Posted: 2021-03-18
• Primary Completion: 2021-03-30
• Study Completion: 2021-06-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 300

Inclusion Criteria

• Egyptian population

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients not accepting to participate in the questionnaire

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Health care workers	A questionnaire or scales	Egyptian health care workers
Recovered fromCOVID-19	A questionnaire or scales	Patients recovered from COVID-19
General population	A questionnaire or scales	Any Egyptian personnel

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Psychological problems	6 months	Symptom checklist 90
Obsessive compulsive disorder	6 months	Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (OCD): Each item is rated from 0 (no symptoms) to 4 (extreme symptoms). A score of 0-7 is considered nonclinical. Scores ranging between 8 and 15 are considered mild. Scores between 16 and 23 are considered moderate and scores between 24-31 and 32-40 are considered severe and extreme, respectively.
Sleep disorder	6 months	Pitsburgh sleep quality index
Depression	6 months	Hamilton depression scale:The total score is obtained by summing the score of each item, 0-4 (symptom is absent, mild, moderate, or severe). For the 17-item version, scores can range from 0 to 54.Where total scores between 0 and 7 do not indicate the presence of depression, scores between 8 and 13 indicate mild depression, scores between 14 and 18 indicate moderate depression, scores between 19 and 22 indicate severe depression and 23 score or more indicate very severe depression.
Anxiety	6 months	Hamilton anxiety scale:The scale consists of 14 items, each defined by a series of symptoms, and measures both psychic anxiety (mental agitation and psychological distress) and somatic anxiety (physical complaints related to anxiety).Each item is scored on a scale of 0 (not present) to 4 (severe), with a total score range of 0-56, where total score 0 -13=normal, 14-17 = mild anxiety, 18-24 = moderate anxiety, 25-30 = severe anxiety.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Faculty of Medicine; 🇪🇬 Assiut, Egypt