Psycho-social factors associated with the nationwide lockdown in India during COVID- 19 pandemic

Abstract

To investigate the psycho-social factors associated with COVID-19 and the nationwide lockdown in India. Study design: An online survey was conducted from April 11 through April 16, 2020 in 28 states and 8 union territories (UT) of India. The potential participants were recruited using snowball sampling procedure. Methods: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted among the people of all states in India. A spatial analysis was performed and Moran's I statistic was applied to investigate the overall clustering of locations. Fisher's exact test was used to investigate associations. GeoDa and R console were used to analyze the data. A total of 1316 responses were received. Results: Those worried for their family's health were likely to follow the lockdown measures < p ( 0.001).Significant association was observed < p ( 0.001) between following the lockdown measures and being satisfied with the government strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. A significant relation was observed between the gender (p = 0.001), job profile < p ( 0.001) and physical activity < p ( 0.001) were observed to be associated with the psycho-social impact. Conclusion:Government and public health officials should consider the sentiments of the community while planning strategies relating to the pandemic. The findings of this study will assist the policymakers in emphasizing the psychological well-being of individuals, along with physical health.

Responses of people with epilepsy to the COVID-19 pandemic in the time of national lockdown

“…Our results indicate that PwE in our sample complied well with national lockdown measures. According to our survey, only 2.8% of respondents stated that they never or rarely complied with the lockdown measures, which is very similar to the results of a research obtained in India that was performed on the general population [6] . A common characteristic among these respondents in our sample was that they did not feel anxiety about the COVID-19 pandemic, which was one of the risk factors of non-compliance with self-isolation measures in the UK [7] .…”

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“…This is consistent with the findings of other authors. [ 22 ] In keeping with other studies our respondents with a self-reported mental illness reported worsened symptoms or living in fear of mental health relapse. [ 23 ] There is therefore a need for health care systems to invest in programmes to better support people with a pre-existing mental illness during a pandemic by understanding their coping strategies and reinforcing these to increase resilience so that they can be applied during a crisis situation such as a pandemic.…”

How India is dealing with COVID-19 pandemic

“…Because of the population and population density lockdown was needed [ 102 ]. It should be mentioned that the People of India followed the Government prescribed rules and were knowledgeable about the drastic impact of COVID-19 hence tried to abide by the regulations [ 103 , 104 ]. Lockdown reduced the transmission and several countries got success from it.…”