The Psychological Aspects of Caregivers of Covid-19 Patient: A Descriptive Study

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Background: A global coordination effort is needed to stop the further spread of the virus, pandemic is defined as “occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population, on 31st December 2019”. In this COVID -19 pandemic situation, the caregiver plays a major role in giving care and giving psychological support through the help of the health professionals.

Objective:

  • To assess the psychological aspects of the caregivers of COVID – 19 patients.
  • To associate the psychological aspects of the caregiver of COVID – 19 patients with their selected demographic variables

Design: The quantitative approach was used in this study.

Setting(s): The study setting was the selected community area of Puducherry. The researcher selected the community area of Lawspet.

Participants: 200 caregivers of covid 19 patients who were present at the time of data collection.

Methods & Results: The research approach used for this study was a quantitative approach and descriptive design. The study was conducted in the community area of lawspet at Puducherry. Sample size 200 was selected by convivence sampling techniques. The researcher used demographic variables and an assessment scale for the psychological aspects of caregivers of COVID 19 patients.

The result shows that the majority of the caregivers 138(69%) were in the age group of 22-35 years, 145(72.5%) were females, most of the caregivers were married 101(50.5), majority of the caregivers were lived in urban area 103(51.5%), most of them are not received support from the relatives 150(75%) respectively.

The psychological aspects of the caregivers of the covid patients show that 155(77.5%) were having a severe level of changes in the psychological aspects, and 45(22.5%) were having a moderate level of changes in the psychological aspects.

The highest score of the mean value is 12.32 out of the 15 items in the physical and emotional stress domain and the lowest score of the mean value is 10.07 out of 15 items in the family and social isolation respectively.

The results predict that the demographic variables had not shown any statistically significant association between the psychological aspects of the caregivers of the COVID -19 patient.

The study reveals that the nurses need to promote the psychological aspect of caregivers of covid 19 patients.