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| Published: June 30, 2022
Psychosocial Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Patliputra University, Patna (Bihar), India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.087.20221002
DOI: 10.25215/1002.087
ABSTRACT
Presently the world is facing the coronavirus disease known as Covid-19. The World Health Organization announced that the outbreaks of the novel coronavirus had constituted a public health emergency. As a result of the emergence of COVID-19, a situation of socio-economic crisis and profound psychological problems rapidly occurred worldwide. This pandemic has multi-dimensional impacts. COVID-19 disease significantly affected the social and economic condition of the world. Various mental health problems, such as stress, anxiety, depression, thanatophobia, frustration, and loneliness, have emerged progressively. This article focuses to systematically review the current literature about the impact of COVID-19 infection on the psychosocial conditions of the world. The mental health problems, as a side effect of quarantine related to COVID-19, have also been emphasized. The psychological burdens imposed by this pandemic on children and the elderly have also been discussed. The protective factors against the negative impact of COVID-19 have been addressed as well.
Keywords
COVID-19, Psychosocial Impact, Pandemic, Quarantine, Social Distance
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2022, Tiwari V.
Received: November 18, 2021; Revision Received: June 26, 2022; Accepted: June 30, 2022
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.087.20221002
10.25215/1002.087
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Published in Volume 10, Issue 2, April-June, 2022