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

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 31 st 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:

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SAMPLE SIZE
The sample size selected was 200 caregivers of covid 19 patients.

CRITERIA FOR SAMPLE SELECTION Inclusion criteria
All caregivers of COVID -19 patients who are willing to participate in this study.
All caregivers are present at the time of data collection.Both adult male and female caregivers, aged 22-to 4to 5, were taking care of the COVID -19 patient.

Exclusion criteria
A caregiver of covid 19 patients who is not willing to participate.

VARIABLE OF THE STUDY
The study variable is the psychological aspect of caregivers of COVID -19 patients.

DEVELOPMENT AND DESCRIPTION OF THE TOOL TOOL TO ASSESS THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT OF CAREGIVER
The Tool which was selected for this study was the assessment of psychological aspects among the caregivers.It is considered the appropriate tool for eliciting the psychological aspect of the caregivers.The tool to developed by an in-depth review of various books.It is the 15 self-structured questionaries for the assessment of the psychological aspects of the caregivers of covid 19 patients.

DESCRIPTION OF TOOL This tool consists of two sections namely
SECTION A: Demographic variables SECTION B: Assessment scale for the psychological aspect among caregivers of covid 19 patients.
SECTION A: It consists of demographic data including age, sex, educational qualification, income, relationship with the COVID -19 patient, marital status, residency type of family, period of contact, and support from the family members.
SECTION B: It is the scale for assessing the self-motivation and physical and emotional stress and social isolation of the caregivers of the covid 19 patients.Each domain consists of 5 questions framed, a total of 15 questions.Scoring was given from 0 to 4.

DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURE
Formal permission obtaining from the current authorities to conduct this study.The information covid 19 affected patients list received from the nursing officer of lawspet PHC and community department.The list was obtained, then the investigator proceeded with the data collection.
Day 1-the investigator selected the family who is affected by covid 19 in the lawspet area door-to-door covid affected family.After introducing to the family, formal permission was obtained from the participants, the data were collected.It took approximately 20-30 minutes for each sample.For one day 8 to 10 families were selected.The same procedures were continued until 200 samples.The question was given to the participant, and they filled out the form.The investigator helped those who could not do so.The data collecting procedures were done everyday morning 10-12 pm.Data collected were organized under the following sections.).The majority of the caregiver has completed b6 (48%)caregivers in undergraduates.Most of the caregivers were a daily wages income of 117 (58.5%)Majority of the caregiver were family members in about the COVID patientsatient 90(45%).Most of the caregivers were married 101 (50.5%).The majority f the caregiver lived in urban areas 103 (51.5%).Most of the caregiver comes from the nuclear family 147 (73.5%).The majority of the caregiver was above 14 days stayed in the hospital for treatment 118 (59%).Most of them are not received support from their relatives 150 (75%) respectively.

Section A :
Description of the demographic variables among caregivers of COVID -19 patients.Section B: Assessment of the level of psychological aspects among caregivers of COVID -19 patients.Section C: Association between the level of psychological aspects among caregivers of COVID -19 patients with their selected demographic variables.SECTION A: DESCRIPTION OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES AMONG CAREGIVERS OF COVID -19 PATIENTS.

Fig:
Fig: Mean and Standard deviation of psychological aspects among caregivers of COVID -19 patients.

Table 1 :
Frequency and Percentage wise Distribution of demographic among caregivers of COVID -19 patients. ISSN:

Table 1 -
Frequency and percentage-wise Distribution of demographic variables among caregivers of COVID -19 patients show that out of the 200 caregivers of COVID -19 patients who were interviewed, the Majority of the caregivers 138 (69%) were in the age group of 2235 years.Most of the caregivers were female 145 (72.5%

Table 2 :
-Frequency and percentage-wise distribution of level of psychological aspects among caregivers of COVID -19 patients.

Table 2
shows the frequency and percentage-wise distribution of the level of psychological aspects among caregivers of COVID -19 patients.The majority of the caregivers 155 (77.5%) had severe levels of psychological aspects and 45 (22.5%) had moderate levels of psychological aspects.The mean and standard deviation of level of psychological aspects among caregivers of COVID -19 patients is (33.25+7.814)respectively.3526 * Corresponding Author: Rajalakshmi venkadapathi Volume 05 Issue 09 September 2022 Available at: ijcsrr.orgPage No.-3521-3530

Table 3 :
Mean and Standard deviation of psychological aspects among caregivers of COVID -19 patients.

Table - 3
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 isolation respectively.

Table 4 :
Association between the level of psychological aspects among caregivers of COVID -19 patients with their selected demographic variables.