Psychological Resilience and Mental Health among Patients With COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious diseases caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus, it's usually present with respiratory symptoms or may be asymptomatic that may have a negative impact on patients’ mental health and many changes to how individual live, along with uncertainly, altered daily routines, financial pressures and social isolation. Aim: The aim of the present study was to assess the relationship between psychological resilience and mental health among patients with COVID-19 pandemic. Design: A descriptive correlational research design was used to achieve the aim of this study. Setting: The study was conducted in Outpatient Thorax Clinic at Benha University Hospital Governorate. Subject: A Purposive sample of 100 patients with COVID-19 during recovery stage was included from the above settings. Tools: Three tools used for data collection. ToolI - A structured interviewing questionnaire was used to collect data about socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of the studied sample, Tool II - Resilience Scale, Tool III - Mental health scale. Results: About half of studied sample had moderate level of resilience. Also, more than quarter of studied sample had moderate level of mental health. Conclusion: There was highly statistically significantly positive correlation between total resilience and total mental health. This is mean when level of resilience increase, mental health become good and when level of resilience low, mental health become poor. Recommendation: Stress management and assertiveness training program should be given to COVID-19 patients to relieve the mental health problems and enhance psychological resilience patterns.