Mental health status, adjustment strategies due to covid19 pandemic and related factors

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Brief Summary: The COVID 19 pandemic represents a massive impact on human mental health, causing sudden life style changes.Optimizing public health during this pandemic requires not only knowledge from the medical and biological sciences, but also of all human sciences related to life style, social and behavioural studies, including dietary habits and life style. Objective of study is to assess the mental health status and coping practices adapted by students of health care profession during covid 19 pandemic and socio demographic or psychosocial factors associated with mental health status of the students of health care profession. Sample size : 400, duration 6 months and it is a cross sectional study. Mental status would be assessed from the DASS 21 scale, and PHQ9. Their Coping status would be assessed by the use of brief COPE. Sleep pattern would be assessed by PSQI with google online forms. Significant number of subjects may be having a mental status amounting to depression and coping strategies may not be appropriate among them. The study may reveal that the covid 19 pandemic has a deleterious effect on the sleeping pattern and eating habits of a significant no of subjects. There may be a positive correlation between the depression scores and sleeping pattern and eating habit.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

Four hundred first year and second year students of Medical,Dental and Nursing School.

Exclusion Criteria

Those students having Known cardiovascular, respiratory and endocrine abnormalities or any other systemic diseases.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Significant number of subjects may be having a mental status amounting to depression and the coping strategies maynot be appropriate among them.	Twelve Weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1.The study may reveal that the covid-19 pandemic has a deleterious effect on the sleeping pattern and eating habits of a significant number of subjects.	2.There may be a positive correlation between the depression scores and sleeping pattern and eating habit scores.

Locations (1): Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, KIIT University
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Khordha, ORISSA, India
Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, KIIT University
🇮🇳Khordha, ORISSA, India
Prof Dr Jayanti Mishra
Principal investigator
9438461373
jayanti.mishra@kims.ac.in