Psychological Distress During COVID-19 Pandemic

NCT ID: NCT05307588

Last Updated: 2022-04-08

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 1056 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-06-01
• Study Completion Date: 2020-10-20

Brief Summary

Design, sample, and setting This is a cross-sectional study using an Internet-based self-administered questionnaire of closed-ended questions and using convenience sampling. In total, 612 undergraduate students completed the survey in Mansoura University.

Data collection Data was collected anonymously through an online questionnaire created using the technology of Google Forms provided by Google ™ and was constructed in Arabic language. The questionnaire consisted of three sections. The first section assessed students' baseline characteristics including sex, age, area of study, academic level, residence, marital status, family members infected, close people infected, and knowing someone who died of the infection.

The second section measured the psychosocial effects of COVID-19 pandemic using two instruments, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale, version 324 and Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21).19 The UCLA Loneliness Scale is a widely used self-report instrument of loneliness consisting of 20 items designed to measure both emotional as well as social loneliness. Response of each item was rated on a four-point scale from (1) never to (4) always felt as expressed in each item. Final score ranges from 20 to 80 with higher scores demonstrating higher feelings of loneliness. The scale's reliability was found to be high with alpha coefficients ranging from 0.89 to 0.94 for samples of students. The Arabic version of UCLA Loneliness Scale was used in the current study according to the Arabic translation in Egyptian culture by Daswqee.20 The correlation coefficients values were 0.76 for females and 0.74 for males.

Detailed Description

Since December 2019, the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread from Wuhan city to different areas in China and around the world. On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. On 14 February 2020, the Egyptian Ministry of Health reported the first case of COVID-19. To control the COVID-19 outbreak, the Egyptian government introduced preventive and containment measures with a partial closure starting on 25 March. On 31 March, Egypt pronounced 710 COVID-19 cases and 46 related deaths with a mortality rate of 6.48%. As on 06 June 2020, there were 1497 new cases with total cases of 32 612, a total of 1198 deaths and 8538 full recovery. Generally, several potential stressors were caused by the pandemic that might lead to psychological distress and life dissatisfaction. Individuals' overall assessments of their psychological wellbeing and quality of life are referred to as life satisfaction. Psychological distress takes the shape of a negative emotion, which contrasts with life contentment. It refers to people's unfavorable emotional reactions to several stimuli, which might include tension, dread, worry and psychological instability.

Conditions

Psychological Distress; COVID-19 Pandemic; Satisfaction

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• All available adults can fill in online surveys.

Exclusion Criteria

• Children under 18 years.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 60 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Beni-Suef University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Ahmed Loutfy

Lecturer of Pediatric Nursing

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Ahmed Loutfy, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Department of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing- Beni Suef University, Egypt

Moustafa Saad, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Department of Gerontological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing-Mansoura University, Egypt

Ahmed Ali, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Department of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing- Mansoura University, Egypt

Abdel-Hady El-Gilany, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt

Mohamed Zoromba, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Department of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing-Mansoura University, Egypt

Locations

Mansoura University

Al Mansurah, , Egypt

Countries

Egypt

References

Wang C, Pan R, Wan X, Tan Y, Xu L, Ho CS, Ho RC. Immediate Psychological Responses and Associated Factors during the Initial Stage of the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Epidemic among the General Population in China. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Mar 6;17(5):1729. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17051729.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 32155789 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

COVID-19

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id