Clinical trial NCT04789226: Psychological Impact of Covid-19 Assiut University Hospital Experience
Official title: Psychological Impact of Covid-19 Assiut University Hospital Experience
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Psychological Impact of Covid-19
Lead sponsor: Assiut University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-03-09
Enrollment: 239
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 90
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patients more than 18 years old and less than 90 years old diagnosed as covid-19 by positive PCR

Brief summary: Psychological impact of covid-19 in assiut university hospital

Detailed description: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a new communicable disease caused by the new strains of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 . The first outbreak reported was in December2019, in Wuhan, China, as pneumonia of unknown etiology linked to a seafood market exposure COVID-19 affects different people in different ways. Most infected people will develop mild to moderate illness and recover without hospitalization.

The evolution of the novel Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) and its expeditious dissemination have led the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare it a pandemic on 11 March 2020 . As of 16 May 2020, there have been 4,425,485 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 302,059 related deaths worldwide and Egypt has been among the most affected countries in the Eastern Mediterranean region with 11,228 confirmed cases and 592 deaths .

As a consequence, many countries, including Egypt, have set a state of lockdown to hinder the spread of infection among people resulting in a global atmosphere of depression and anxiety associated with social isolation, fears of getting infected, breaks in the supply chains, financial distress, disrupted travel plans, and future uncertainty . Several epidemiological studies from China detected a high prevalence of psychological disturbances among the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, a large online survey of 56,679 individuals from 34 provinces in China reported numerous psychological conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic: depression (27.9%), anxiety (31.6%), stress (24.4%), and insomnia (29.2%) . Also, a study conducted on 4872 Chinese people from 31 provinces showed a high prevalence of depression (48.3%) and anxiety (22.6%) related to the COVID-19 pandemic . A similar study revealed depression (20.1%), anxiety (35.1%), and poor sleeping (18.2%) among 7236 Chinese people . Another study conducted on 7143 college students in China detected anxiety among 25% of them .

In low- and middle-income countries, such as Egypt, where infection control precautions, surveillance programs, laboratory capacity, and public health resources are limited , the response to the COVID-19 pandemic is challenging and, as a result, the psychological impacts of the pandemic on the public can be even worse. Thus, we conducted this study to evaluate several forms of psychological disturbances .

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* age more than 18 years old
* diagnosed as covid-19 by positive PCR
* comes to Assiut University Hospital
* both sex males and females

Exclusion Criteria:

* age less than 18 years old
* past history of psychatric disorder

Primary outcomes:
measure: Symptom Checklist 90 "SCL 90"
timeFrame: One year
measure: post traumatic stress disorder "PTSD"
timeFrame: One year
measure: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index "PSQI"
timeFrame: One year
measure: The 36- items Short Form"SF 36"
timeFrame: one year
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