Assessment of Stress amongst Medical Practitioners During COVID-19 Second Wave: An Observational Study

Abstract

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which originated in Wuhan, China, was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on January 30th, 2020. There was tremendous stress on medical practitioners especially working in COVID unit. Further after unlocking completed, despite of vaccinations, due to mutation in Covid-19 strain, cases tend to rise in very sharply, resulting into second wave of pandemic. 55 Medical Practitioners working in COVID hospital in Aurangabad region responded and studied. Results shown that 35 of those that is 70% were in moderate stress, 09(18%) are in severe stress and 06(15%) are mildly stressed.