Lockdown of 1.3 billion people in India during Covid-19 pandemic: A survey of its impact on mental health

Kochhar, Anuraj Singh; Bhasin, Ritasha; Kochhar, Gulsheen Kaur; Dadlani, Himanshu; Mehta, Viral Vijay; Kaur, Roseleen; Bhasin, Charanpreet Kaur

doi:10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102213

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“…Reported psychosocial distress due to COVID-19 was consistent with Gao et al ’s findings of anxiety and depression among Chinese communities ( Gao et al., 2020 ). Similarly, Kochhar et al found mental health concerns were related to isolation and income loss from lockdown ( Kochhar et al., 2020 ). The suggested benefit of Ramadan in reducing interactions and thus COVID-19 transmission due to people's low energy levels was mentioned elsewhere but lacks evidence ( Reza et al., 2020 ).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“Ten years of war! You expect people to fear a ‘germ’?”: A qualitative study of initial perceptions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic among displaced communities in opposition-controlled northwest Syria

Douedari

Alhaffar

Al-Twaish

et al. 2020

Journal of Migration and Health

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“Ten years of war! You expect people to fear a ‘germ’?”: A qualitative study of initial perceptions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic among displaced communities in opposition-controlled northwest Syria

Douedari

Alhaffar

Al-Twaish

et al. 2020

Journal of Migration and Health

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“…A few qualitatively driven studies have used customised COVID-19 related questionnaires to survey the public on issues related to the psychological impact of COVID-19 on mental health. Some of these research studies have emerged from countries such as Australia [ 51 ], Spain [ 52 , 53 , 54 ], India [ 55 , 56 ], Mexico [ 57 ], China [ 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 ], United Kingdom [ 62 ], USA [ 63 ], and Italy [ 64 , 65 ]. Based on the completed virtual and web-based surveys, the outcomes from these surveys suggest that levels and rates of psychological distress vary across countries.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Assessment of the Novel COVISTRESS Questionnaire: COVID-19 Impact on Physical Activity, Sedentary Action and Psychological Emotion

Ugbolue

Duclos

Urzeala

et al. 2020

JCM

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Globally the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has triggered an economic downturn and a rise in unemployment. As a result, global communities have had to face physical, health, psychological and socio-economical related stressors. The purpose of this study was to assess and report the impact of isolation and effect of coronavirus on selected psychological correlates associated with emotions. Following ethical approval, a mixed methods observational study was conducted using the validated COVISTRESS questionnaire. Two observational study scenarios were evaluated namely “Prior” to the COVID-19 outbreak and “Currently”, i.e., during the COVID-19 pandemic. 10,121 participants from 67 countries completed the COVISTRESS questionnaire. From the questionnaire responses only questions that covered the participant’s occupation; sociodemographic details, isolation and impact of coronavirus were selected. Further analyses were performed on output measures that included leisure time, physical activity, sedentary time and emotions. All output measures were evaluated using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) with an intensity ranging from 0–100. Descriptive statistics, Wilcoxon signed-rank test and Spearman correlational analysis were applied to the leisure time, physical activity, sedentary time and emotional feeling datasets; p = 0.05 was set as the significance level. Both males and females displayed similar output measures. The Wilcoxon signed rank test showed significant differences with respect to “Prior” COVID-19 and “Currently” for sedentary activity (Z = −40.462, p < 0.001), physical activity (Z = −30.751, p < 0.001) and all other emotional feeling output measures. A moderate correlation between “Prior” COVID-19 and “Currently” was observed among the Males (r = 0.720) in comparison to the Females (r = 0.639) for sedentary activity while weaker correlations (r < 0.253) were observed for physical activity and emotional feeling measurements, respectively. Our study reported incremental differences in the physical and psychological output measures reported, i.e., “Prior” COVID-19 and “Currently”. “Prior” COVID-19 and “Currently” participants increased their sedentary habits by 2.98%, and the level of physical activity reduced by 2.42%, depression levels increased by 21.62%, anxiety levels increased by 16.71%, and stress levels increased by 21.8%. There were no correlations (r) between leisure, physical activity and sedentary action (i.e., “Prior” = −0.071; “Currently” = −0.097); no correlations (r) between leisure physical activity and emotion (i.e., −0.071 > r > 0.081) for “Prior”; and poor correlations (r) between leisure, physical activity and sedentary action (i.e., −0.078 > r > 0.167) for “Current”. The correlations (r) between sedentary action and emotion for “Prior” and “Currently” were (−0.100 > r > 0.075) and (−0.040 > r > 0.041) respectively. The findings presented here indicate that the COVISTRESS project has created awareness in relation to the physical and psychological impact resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings have also highlighted individual distress caused by COVID-19 and associated health consequences for the global community.

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“…Isolation, fear, uncertainty, economic turmoil is namely a few issues that can greatly cause psychological distress among humans due to COVID-19 [ 75 ]. In India poverty, starvation, hunger is still an issue that will be escalated due to COVID-19.…”

Section: Indian Scenario For Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

How India is dealing with COVID-19 pandemic

Ghosh

Nundy

Mallick

2020

Sensors International

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India, which has the second-largest population in the world is suffering severely from COVID-19 disease. By May 18th, India investigated ∼1 lakh (0.1million) infected cases from COVID-19, and as of 11th July the cases equalled 8 lakhs. Social distancing and lockdown rules were employed in India, which however had an additional impact on the economy, human living, and environment. Where a negative impact was observed for the economy and human life, the environment got a positive one. How India dealt and can potentially deal with these three factors during and post COVID-19 situation has been discussed here.

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Lockdown of 1.3 billion people in India during Covid-19 pandemic: A survey of its impact on mental health

Cited by 58 publications

References 13 publications

“Ten years of war! You expect people to fear a ‘germ’?”: A qualitative study of initial perceptions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic among displaced communities in opposition-controlled northwest Syria

“Ten years of war! You expect people to fear a ‘germ’?”: A qualitative study of initial perceptions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic among displaced communities in opposition-controlled northwest Syria

An Assessment of the Novel COVISTRESS Questionnaire: COVID-19 Impact on Physical Activity, Sedentary Action and Psychological Emotion

How India is dealing with COVID-19 pandemic

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