Original Research Article
Year: 2022 | Month: May | Volume: 9 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 146-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20220523
A Survey Study on Stress and Depression among Paramedical Students in Virtual Classroom during COVID-19 Pandemic in Kerala
Susan Annie George1, Ben Salu2, Bijo K. R3, Boniya Rose N. S4
1Associate Professor, College of Physiotherapy, Medical Trust Institute of Medical Sciences,
Cochin, Kerala, India
2-4Fourth year BPT students, College of Physiotherapy, Medical Trust Institute of Medical Sciences,
Cochin, Kerala, India
Corresponding Author: Susan Annie George
ABSTRACT
Background: The epidemic of Covid -19 caused paramedical students to become more stressed and depressed. Exacerbated study load, online classes, and lack of practical sessions, examination fear increased their stress level. So the aim of the study was to analyze the stress and depression among those paramedical students.
Method: A cross sectional survey study in hand was done. A convenient sample method was used. It consists of 200 paramedical students between the age of 18 and 23 years from various paramedical colleges in Kerala especially from Ernakulum. The participants were selected according to inclusion, exclusion criteria. The survey was conducted during the first week of August 2021.The outcome measures were Beck’s depression inventory scale for assessing depression and perceived stress scale was used for assessing stress.
Result: This study result shows that, there are 5% of highly stressed subjects and 85% are of medium stress, 10% of study sample has low stress. In case of depression, 1% have extreme depression, 11% subjects have severe depression, 33% of the samples have moderate depression, 15% have borderline depression, 17% have mild depression and 23% of subjects were normal.
Conclusion: From the study we concluded that, there is a presence of stress and depression among paramedical students in virtual classroom during Covid- 19 outbreak period. The scoring helped us to find out who is prone to severe stress and depression. It also shows the importance of management of the issue of paramedical students.
Keywords: Stress, depression, paramedical students, Beck's depression inventory, perceived stress scale.
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