Impact of COVID-Pandemic on the Mental Health of Medical Students of Sindh Province, Pakistan
2021
Introduction: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is group of viral disease associated with respiratory infection and it has similar symptoms of COVID-pandemic The first case of SARS was reported in ancient remote areas of China in 2003 and spread throughout the world within short period of time World Health Organization coordinated with numerous health experts around the globe in order to overcome the pandemic condition Methodology: The descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted for the period of 06 months from June 2020 to December 2020 at different medical universities of Sindh province Total 374 study samples were selected and data was collected from the medical students of numerous medical universities of Sindh province and well designated questionnaire was filled by participants through proper guidelines provided to them Data was analyzed by using statistical software SPSS version 24 00 Results: Impact of Covid Pandemic on the mental health of medical students was evaluated by compiling the data from questionnaire filled by them Frequency of males were 216(%) and females 158(%), mostly people were resident of rural areas with the frequencies of 226 (%) and only 148(%) belongs to urban areas 114 participants belongs to MBBS degree, 49 belongs to BDS, 72 Nursing, 83 Pharmacy and 56 students belongs to Public Health department of numerous medical universities Conclusion: It was concluded that there was bad impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the mental health of medical students of Universities from Sindh province Level of anxiety among the students totally depends upon variables were online classis, examination, ward visits and Assignments Academic activities along with financial matter had direct impact on the mental health of students
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