Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Not yet recruiting
Administrative data
| NCT number |
NCT04789226 |
| Other study ID # |
Psychology and covid 19 |
| Secondary ID |
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| Status |
Not yet recruiting |
| Phase |
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| First received |
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| Last updated |
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| Start date |
March 1, 2021 |
| Est. completion date |
March 1, 2022 |
Study information
| Verified date |
March 2021 |
| Source |
Assiut University |
| Contact |
n/a |
| Is FDA regulated |
No |
| Health authority |
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| Study type |
Observational
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Clinical Trial Summary
Psychological impact of covid-19 in assiut university hospital
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 .
