POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AS ONE OF EMERGING PSYCHIATRIC CONSEQUENCES OF COVID-19
Abstract
Objective: In this study, we aimed to determine the associated factors in prevalence of PTSD among patients with COVID-19 who were treated.
Study Design: Cross-sectional study
Place and duration of the study: the study was conducted in medical OPD of DG khan from August, 2021 to December, 2021.
Subjects and method: 120 PTSD patients were approached through convenient sampling technique. PCL-5 scale was used to assess severity of PTSD symptoms. SPSS-22 was used to analyse the data.
Results: showed the severity of PTSD symptoms, in the patients re-experiencing symptoms were quite a bit 31.7%, avoidance were extreme 30%, symptoms of negative alteration in cognition and mood were moderate 37.5% in most of the patients and hyperarousal was quite a bit severe 37.5% in most of the patients.
Conclusions
the findings confirm that PTSD symptoms were moderate to severe including the re-experiencing, avoidance, alteration in mood and cognition and hyperarousal in most of the participants who were exposed to COVID-19 symptoms. There should be some preventive measures and interventions to overcome and protect individuals from PTSD symptoms.
Key Words: COVID-19, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Eye witnessed
Downloads
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2024. Authors.
Licencing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Readers may “Share-copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format” and “Adapt-remix, transform, and build upon the material”. The readers must give appropriate credit to the source of the material and indicate if changes were made to the material. Readers may not use the material for commercial purposes. The readers may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
