Version 1
: Received: 3 October 2023 / Approved: 3 October 2023 / Online: 4 October 2023 (07:50:27 CEST)
How to cite:
Alali, M.; Al-Hajjaj, M.; Al-Dalabeeh, W.; Alwahkyan, A.; Alsakaji, O.; Salameh, M.; Hamdan, Q.; Arabiat, A.; Alhamawi, S.; Al-Shdaifat, A. The Prevalence of Mental Health Illness among Jordanian Patients during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study. Preprints2023, 2023100165. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.0165.v1
Alali, M.; Al-Hajjaj, M.; Al-Dalabeeh, W.; Alwahkyan, A.; Alsakaji, O.; Salameh, M.; Hamdan, Q.; Arabiat, A.; Alhamawi, S.; Al-Shdaifat, A. The Prevalence of Mental Health Illness among Jordanian Patients during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study. Preprints 2023, 2023100165. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.0165.v1
Alali, M.; Al-Hajjaj, M.; Al-Dalabeeh, W.; Alwahkyan, A.; Alsakaji, O.; Salameh, M.; Hamdan, Q.; Arabiat, A.; Alhamawi, S.; Al-Shdaifat, A. The Prevalence of Mental Health Illness among Jordanian Patients during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study. Preprints2023, 2023100165. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.0165.v1
APA Style
Alali, M., Al-Hajjaj, M., Al-Dalabeeh, W., Alwahkyan, A., Alsakaji, O., Salameh, M., Hamdan, Q., Arabiat, A., Alhamawi, S., & Al-Shdaifat, A. (2023). The Prevalence of Mental Health Illness among Jordanian Patients during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.0165.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Alali, M., Saed Alhamawi and Amjad Al-Shdaifat. 2023 "The Prevalence of Mental Health Illness among Jordanian Patients during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.0165.v1
Abstract
Background
As a major virus outbreak in the 21st century, the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to unprecedented hazards to mental health globally. Health care workers, patients with COVID-19 are experiencing post-traumatic stress disorders, anxiety, depression, and insomnia.
Methods:
A cross-sectional study using a questionnaire consisted of four parts: sociodemographic, current and previous health status, measures in a social isolation, and the Arabic version of Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21).
Results:
We had 110 patients who completed the data. 89 (80.9%) of patients recovered from COVID-19. They ranged from 18-84 with a mean of 37.6 years (SD = 9.8 years). We had 33.6% of patients re-ported moderate to extremely severe depression compared to 18.2% with mild reported symptoms. The anxiety severity showed that (35.4%) out of patients had moderate to extremely severe anxiety, compared to (6.4%) who had mild anxiety. While stress severity showed that (22.7%) had moderate to extremely severe stress compared to (13.6%) who had mild stress.
Conclusion:
COVID-19 has caused a significant increase in the prevalence of mental health illness in the general population. Large systematic reviews are required to set the general overall of impact of this pandemic on mental health.
Keywords
COVID-19; mental health; Anxiety
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Internal Medicine
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
