Volume 26, Issue 126, August 2022

Occurrence and determinants of psychiatric disorders during COVID-19 pandemic among subjects in Jeddah city, Saudi Arabia

Fathi M El-Gamal^1♦, Saeed A Al qahtani², Abdullah R Alnaggar², Latifah A Ahmad², Dalal B Alnajjar², Rama S Bakadam²

¹Professor and chairman of the Department of Family Medicine, Ibn-Sina National College for Medical Studies, Jeddah, KSA
²Ibn Sina National College, Faculty of Medicine, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Professor and chairman of the Department of Family Medicine, Ibn-Sina National College for Medical Studies, Jeddah, KSA

ABSTRACT

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate COVID-19 that has an impact on the incident of psychiatric manifestations among the subjects in Jeddah city. Methodology: A cross sectional study conducted among general population of Jeddah, and the participants were selected by using convenient sampling method from June 2021 till July 2021. Results: This study included 1501 subjects, males (47.2%) and females (52.8%). Most of the people who participated were 40 years (66.8%). Participants who got infected with COVID-19 were (24.9%). The severity of the symptoms of COVID-19 infection was mild in those aged 19 – 41 years, moderate in those aged 12 – 18 years, and sever in those aged 41 – 60 years. Greater proportion of those who were infected with COVID-19 was non-health care workers Suffered from change in the rate of sleep and appetite compared to the controls (p value < 0.05). Greater proportion of patients who had COVID-19 infection underwent improvement of psychological symptoms after quarantine compared to those who did not catch the disease (p<0.05). Conclusions: We found that participants who got infected with COVID-19 the majority had a score between moderate to extremely severe score in stress, anxiety and depression categories. We encourage patients who got infected with COVID-19 consider seeking psychological assessment and checkup.

Keywords: COVID-19, vaccination, psychological disorders

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms339e2272

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i126/ms339e2272

Published: 14 August 2022