Stress, Depression and Factors related to Stress and Depression among Patients with COVID-19 in Infectious Diseases Unit, Huai Khot Hospital, Huai Khot District, Uthai Thani Province
Abstract
The cross-sectional descriptive research to study stress, depression and factors related to stress, depression in COVID-19 patients at Huai Khot Hospital, Huai Khot District, Uthai Thani Province. The sample were selected by purposive sampling, consisting of 107 COVID-19 patients confirmed through RT-PCR testing. The research instruments the factor assessment was content validity by experts, and stress assessment and depression assessment were reliability by using Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient equal to .86 and .96, respectively. The instruments consisted of four sections: 1) Personal factors, 2) Related factors 3) Stress assessment, and 4) depression assessment. Data were analyzed using frequency and percentage statistics. Correlated factors were analyzed using Chi-square statistics.
The study revealed that stress in COVID-19 patients was divided into 90.7% low level, 9.3% medium level. And the factors related to stress levels included social problems (c² =17.250) and family problems (c² = 4.79) with statistical significance (p<. 001 and p<.05 respectively). The presence of depression in COVID-19 patients was found to be 41.4%, divided into low level 38.3% and moderate level 3.2. % found that factors related to depression included both social problems (c² =28.205) and family problems (c² =18.531) that were statistically significant (p<.001). In addition, congenital diseases (c² =17.369) is also related to depression in COVID-19 patients with statistical significance (p<.05).
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