Psychological Response of Frontline Workers during Covid-19 Second Wave in Selected Covid Hospital

Abstract

Background: Frontline workers are the pillar of essential health care systems, they play an important part in delivering a health solution, and they tie families and communities to the health care system.

Aim: The goal of this study was to see how frontline workers reacted psychologically during the second wave of Covid-19.

Material and methods: In selected covid hospitals in Puducherry, a phone-based survey and a cross-sectional study were done to assess the psychological response among 250 frontline workers during covid-19 second wave. The Questionnaires including socio demographic profile and DASS-21 scale. Sampling technique was exponential non discriminative snowball sampling and data was collected online through a Google forms questionnaire.

Results: The results revealed that out of 250 frontline workers 113 (45.2%) had a depression, 157 (62.8%) had an anxiety and 52 (20.8%) had a stress. Doctors and nurses were having more level of depression, anxiety and stress comparing with other frontline workers. The demographic variable revealed a statistically significant association between depression level, anxiety level and stress level with chi-square value of p < 0.05, p < 0.001 & p < 0.05 and p < 0.05 level.

Conclusion: According to the findings, frontline workers should be regularly evaluated for psychological effects and provided suitable supervision before deployment as a high-risk group.