One of the challenges of the current pandemic in Romania has been the monitoring of COVID-19 positive patients isolated at home by their family doctors. There was no legal framework or experience in remote medical consultations and there were no clear and comprehensive guidelines for therapeutic management at the beginning of this study. As the pandemic evolved, one of the problems identified from practical experience was that anxiety in this category of patients is an underestimated factor. The present study aimed to provide some clarifying data on the level, determinants, effects and methods of addressing anxiety in COVID-19 patients isolated at home. This approach started on a number of N = 107 patients to whom demographic data were collected and an anxiety questionnaire was applied by telephone. In the next stage, in order to obtain valid results in a timely manner, an online questionnaire was completed by 71 family physicians from Galati County, Romania. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis was performed using Excel and SPSS software. The results showed that the level and importance of anxiety in these patients are underestimated and one of the key factors to avoid negative endings (delayed hospitalization or unjustified hospitalization) is the self-determination of peripheral oxygen saturation.
ntroduction: Anniversary depressions are characterized by a dispositional change dominated by sadness, revolt against "destiny", regret and often self-accusations and suicidal concerns. They reflect a close correlation with a stressful event, especially localized during the family lifetime, such as the death of the child, the parent, partner or other loved ones. Anniversary depression occurs spontaneously with the approach of the trauma event or even at the anniversary of it. Symptoms of depression may occur a few days or weeks before and culminate at the anniversary when some of the depressed guilty feelings are shut down in their own painful intimacy (with high suicidal risk) and the others revolt against the destiny and "the guilty". Aim: The objective of this study is to evaluate young people's opinions about anniversary depression. Method: A questionnaire derived from HAM-D (Hamilton Depression Rating Scale) was applied to a group of 56 students during the year 2019. A quantitative and qualitative assessment of young people's perception of depressive symptomatology was evaluated. Applied questionnaires comply with the privacy rules of Law 46/2003 (A) and EU Regulation 2016/679. Conclusions: From the investigated group it results than 93% know someone who has experienced a traumatic episode. Of the 56 examines a significant proportion know or have experienced a traumatic event with an impact on mood (79%). Behavioural changes associated with the traumatic event or recall of such an event (in decreasing frequency) are sleeping disorders 79%, mood disorders 77%, appetite change 48%, somatoform accusations 36%, suicidal tendency 30%, decreasing useful yields 25 %, feelings of guilt 21%, decrease in alcohol consumption 14%, increase in alcohol consumption 7%.
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