Nargis Iqbal, Faiza Nisar, Amna Rafique, Sumera Naseem, Iqbal Ahmad Azhar, A-ul Miraj M Zia, Khulood Mukhtar, Nazia Nawaz, Nadia Khurshid, Najia Anjum.
Psychological impact of COVID-19 Pandemic among health care providers.
Pak J Surg Jan ;37(3):162-6.

Objectives: To ascertain the prevalence of stress and anxiety disorders in Health Care Providers during Pandemic of COVID-19, and to provide appropriate suggestions to deal it. Material and Methods: This Cross-sectional study was conducted at AL-Aleem Medical College, Lahore attached with Gulab Devi Educational Complex, over a period of three months from September 2020 to November 2020 after approval from Institutional Review Board (IRB). Non probability convenience sampling technique was used, a total of 100 willing Health Care Providers (doctors, nurses and paramedics) were included in the study. The data was collected by handing over "The 7- item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) performa, it was entered and then analyzed by SPSS version 23. This scale is from 1 to 21. i describes no anxiety and 21 severe anxiety. Results: The total prevalence in health care providers (HCP) was 86%, 33% were suffering from mild anxiety, 48% and 5% were suffering from moderate and severe anxiety respectively, p-value was 0.041. The mean age of the participants was 29.86 years, the mean age of doctors, nurses and paramedical staff was 30.30, 34.07 and 35.90 years respectively. There were 55% female and 45% male. Conclusions: Significantly high level of stress and anxiety disorders (86%) were found in health care providers during pandemic of COVID-19, doctors, nurses and paramedics are equally affected in the study. This is an alarming issue and need of the hour to deal both at government and community levels, in order to keep psychological wellbeing of all health care providers.

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