Short and Long-term Psychological Impact of Covid-19 on The Egyptians

Psychological Impact of Covid-19 on The Egyptians

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently declared coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) a public health emergency of international concern. Impact of the pandemic of covid-19 on the mental health of patients, health care workers and general population would be affected.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Mental Health Issue
• Intervention / Treatment: Diagnostic test: A questionnaire or scales

Detailed Description

Health care workers and general population will be included in the study. A questionnaire will be used to assess their knowledge and practices regarding covid-19 and its impact on mental health.

Patients Mental health will be assessed regarding anxiety, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder, sleep disorder will be assessed.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 300

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Egypt
  • Assiut, Egypt, 71111
    • Recruiting
    • Faculty of medicine
    • Contact: Gellan Ahmed

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Health care workers, patients recovered from COVID-19 and general population

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Egyptian population

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients not accepting to participate in the questionnaire

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

3

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
Health care workers; Egyptian health care workers	Diagnostic test: A questionnaire or scales; A questionnaire or scale to assess the participants mental health.
General population; Any Egyptian personnel	Diagnostic test: A questionnaire or scales; A questionnaire or scale to assess the participants mental health.
Recovered fromCOVID-19; Patients recovered from COVID-19	Diagnostic test: A questionnaire or scales; A questionnaire or scale to assess the participants mental health.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Depression	Hamilton depression scale:The total score is obtained by summing the score of each item, 0-4 (symptom is absent, mild, moderate, or severe). For the 17-item version, scores can range from 0 to 54.Where total scores between 0 and 7 do not indicate the presence of depression, scores between 8 and 13 indicate mild depression, scores between 14 and 18 indicate moderate depression, scores between 19 and 22 indicate severe depression and 23 score or more indicate very severe depression.	6 months
Anxiety	Hamilton anxiety scale:The scale consists of 14 items, each defined by a series of symptoms, and measures both psychic anxiety (mental agitation and psychological distress) and somatic anxiety (physical complaints related to anxiety).Each item is scored on a scale of 0 (not present) to 4 (severe), with a total score range of 0-56, where total score 0 -13=normal, 14-17 = mild anxiety, 18-24 = moderate anxiety, 25-30 = severe anxiety.	6 months
Obsessive compulsive disorder	Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (OCD): Each item is rated from 0 (no symptoms) to 4 (extreme symptoms). A score of 0-7 is considered nonclinical. Scores ranging between 8 and 15 are considered mild. Scores between 16 and 23 are considered moderate and scores between 24-31 and 32-40 are considered severe and extreme, respectively.	6 months
Sleep disorder	Pitsburgh sleep quality index	6 months
Psychological problems	Symptom checklist 90	6 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Assiut University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 15, 2020
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): March 30, 2021
• Study Completion (Anticipated): June 30, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 11, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 13, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): April 14, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 18, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 16, 2021
• Last Verified: March 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Covid-19; mental health; Egyptian; population; Health workers
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Coronavirus Infections; Coronaviridae Infections; Nidovirales Infections; RNA Virus Infections; Virus Diseases; Infections; Respiratory Tract Infections; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Pneumonia, Viral; Pneumonia; Lung Diseases; COVID-19
• Other Study ID Numbers: Covid-19 mental health

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: Only the data described in the results of the study.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No