An Empirical Research On Depression, Anxiety, Stress Among Infected And Affected Persons Due To COVID-19

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B Mohanapriya, S Shafika Banu, N Nishanth, A Saloni Rasika, K Vishveshwaran

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Panic and fear are not just words, they are the true reflections of negative state of mind in masses, and at the current circumstances of second wave of COVID-19, it has influenced almost major of the population worldwide. In other words, each and every individual has been affected out of that in the form of depression, anxiety and stress. So the researchers considered it a need of an hour to conduct a research study on depression, anxiety and stress faced by both infected and affected persons out of COVID-19 virus. The objective of this research is to study three dimensional such as depression, anxiety and stress among individuals who are infected and affected, who are worried. The Descriptive research design is used for the study. To find out the level of depression, anxiety and stress, the researchers adopted Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 21 items (DASS-21) developed by Lovibond which has seven questions under each dimensions, was used for this study. The universe of the study is infected and affected out of COVID-19 in Coimbatore. The researchers collected 110 samples using snow ball sampling, a non- probability sampling method. The emailed questionnaire and google forms are used to collect the data from the respondents. The study reveals the level of depression, Anxiety and Stress of persons who are affected or infected out of COVID-19. The Social work interventions like Individual Counselling and group counselling can be provided which helps to cope up with the current scenario

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