Anxiety in Rural and Urban Areas Living Peoples During COVID-19

Background: COVID-19 is an epidemic that started in December 2019 and has spread all over the world. It is an infectious disease that not only has an impact on the physical health of the person but also a harmful impact on mental health. Objective: In this study, we have tried to find out the level of anxiety of the people living in rural and urban areas during COVID-19. Method: Online survey method was used in this research paper. A self-developed questionnaire for measure anxiety was used to data collection and data was collected through the online google form. 98 people of rural and urban areas of different states (UP, Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan) were responded on this form. Mean and the standard deviation was used for the calculation of raw data and to know the significant difference between rural and urban areas people during COVID-19, t-test was used. Result: Mean, standard deviation and t-test were used to know the difference between groups. The mean score of rural and urban areas peoples is 54.29 and 51.48 with SD= 12.33 and 10.88 respectively. The t-value was 1.07 between rural and urban areas peoples which show that there is a significant difference between rural and urban areas peoples at the degree of freedom 96 on 0.15 level of significant. Conclusion: The result shows that there was significant difference between rural and urban living people on anxiety level.