Mental health outcome in hospitalized COVID-19 patients: An observational analysis from North Indian tertiary care hospital

• Published in: Clinical epidemiology and global health 2023-01, Vol.19, p.101209-101209, Article 101209
• Main Authors: Gupta, Pawan Kumar, Singh, Shweta, Mahour, Pooja, Gupta, Bandna, Agarwal, Manu, Dalal, Pronob Kumar, Agarwal, Vivek, Nischal, Anil, Tripathi, Adarsh, Himanshu, D., Arya, Amit, Verma, Sudhir, Mishra, Deepanshu, Gupta, Vishal
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Coping; COVID-19; Mental health symptoms; Perceived stress
• ISSN: 2213-3984; 2452-0918; 2213-3984
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cegh.2022.101209

The study investigate the severity of perceived stress and wide domains of psychiatric symptoms reported on initial screening in hospitalized patients of COVID-19 with a second aim to determine the role of sociodemographic factors and coping styles in the hospitalized patients of COVID-19. Total 224 patients of COVID-19 infection, hospitalized in various isolation facilities were assessed via web-based self-reported questionnaires on perceived stress scale, brief cope inventory, and DSM-5 crosscutting level-1 questionnaire. Majority of the patients reported moderate level of stress followed by mild and severe. Depression and Anxiety symptoms were most common psychopathologies though the patients have reported greater severity in various domains of psychiatric symptoms. Coping styles explains most of variance (64.8%) of the perceived stress. Similarly total PSS scores, coping styles, COVID-19 status and sociodemographic factors contributed significantly to the variance of all psychiatric symptoms. Factors like female gender, being married, belonging to nuclear families, service class and urban domicile are the significant factors determining higher risk of stress and developing more psychopathologies. Furthermore, coping styles used by the patients have a greater moderating effect on mental health symptoms and their perceived stress which can be a major area for interventions to reduce the mental health morbidities.