Impact of COVID-19 on medical practice

Ekampreet Kaur; Abhinav Sood; Himanshu Tripathi; Shipra Rohatgi; Sanya Sharma; Jaskaran Singh

doi:10.53730/ijhs.v6nS2.5800

Impact of COVID-19 on medical practice

https://doi.org/10.53730/ijhs.v6nS2.5800

Authors

Ekampreet Kaur Intern, Regional Testing Forensic Science Laboratory, Toxicology division, Ludhiana, India
Abhinav Sood Senior Research Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
Himanshu Tripathi Additional Director, University Institute of Applied Health Sciences, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali, Punjab
Shipra Rohatgi Faculty, Amity Institute of Forensic Sciences, Amity University, Noida, India
Sanya Sharma Master Forensic Science, Institute of Forensic Sciences, Amity University, Noida, India
Jaskaran Singh Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Sciences, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali, Punjab

Keywords:

COVID-19, medical officials, stress, coping strategies

Abstract

Initiating from China, the contagious virus namely COVID-19 spread at really high rate all over the world. In the starting stage, healthcare officials were considered as front-line warriors. The current study focuses on analysing the impact of COVID-19 on medical officials in order to identify the risks and protective factors of their mental health stress level. The parameters considered were socio-demographic variables, exposure to the patients suffering from COVID-19 and the strategies employed for coping with and deal with distress. A total of 100 healthcare professionals enrolled in the current study and completed the all the parameters. This study has demonstrated that positive attitude towards the stressed situation. Comprehensively, it is found that has been emerged due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study highlighted the major coping strategies employed by healthcare professionals to get rid of highly stressful situation caused by COVID-19 outbreak.

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Published

10-04-2022

How to Cite

Kaur, E., Sood, A., Tripathi, H., Rohatgi, S., Sharma, S., & Singh, J. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 on medical practice. International Journal of Health Sciences, 6(S2), 3208–3218. https://doi.org/10.53730/ijhs.v6nS2.5800

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Vol. 6 No. S2 (2022)

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