Psychological Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown among Adolescents

Quarantines and lockdowns are the type of social restrictions and isolation that cause many adverse effects including psychological aspects for anyone who experienced.

Determine the level of psychological impact of COVID-19 lockdown among adolescents.

Descriptive design was adopted. 100 adolescents were selected by convenience sampling technique. Self administered questionnaire was prepared to assess the psychological impact of COVID-19 lockdown. The data analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics.

The study findings revealed that, the adolescents doesn’t have the major psychological impact like Depression (79%), anxiety (78%) and stress (99%), during the Covid-19 Lockdown. The all three domains of Psychological impact (depression, anxiety and stress) having a positive relationships within them. There is significant association found between the psychological impact of COVID-19 lockdown with their age, years of study with level of depression. Exposure to COVID-19 infectionand parents belongs to frontline health worker were got associated with anxiety. There is no significant association found with stress and selected demographic variables.

The COVID-19 Lockdown has been found no any major impact of Psychological health among selected adolescents. Hence it need further research on different settings.

Mental Health nurses have responsibilities to identify the psychological health among adolescents at pandemic/lockdown period.