Prevalence Of Psychiatric Morbidities Among Covid -19 Patients In A Tertiary Care Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Dr Mathivanan MD (Psy)
Due the lack of treatment options, isolation guidelines and fear about the disease, the cases with COVID 19 may experience high psychiatric related disorders. Hence this study was conducted to assess the prevalence of psychiatric morbidities among the cases with COVID 19. Overall prevalence of psychiatric morbidities among the COVID 19 cases was reported as 24.4% with signicant difference in prevalence among males and females. Most common psychiatric illness reported was COVID related anxiety (16.5%) followed by COVID related depression (6.6%), insomnia (0.87%), alcohol dependence syndrome (0.3%), acute stress reaction (0.03%), intellectual disability (0.03%), psychosis (0.02%) and hemophobia (0.008%).
“The difference in proportion of cases with various psychiatric morbidities like insomnia, COVID related anxiety, COVID related depression, and alcohol dependance syndrome among the male and female genders was found to be statistically significant.”