Mental Health, Sleep Quality and Quality of Life in Subjects with Multiple Health Conditions during Home Quarantine for COVID-19 Pandemic Attack: A Comparison with Healthy Subjects

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the COVID-19 outbreak is a global pandemic that started at the end of November in China and then gradually spread all over the world. As neither a treatment nor vaccine has been discovered for this disease, it raises concerns among the public about the spread of infection from confirmed COVID-19 positive cases. The WHO suggests that social isolation helps to limit the growing number of cases of COVID-19, and this has also led to significant fear and anxiety related to the spread of infection in the general public. Excessive fear and apprehension about the spread of infection can lead to acute stress, anxiety, and low quality of sleep.The primary aim of this study was to test assess the psychological stress, sleep quality, and health-related quality of life (QoL) of individuals in subjects with multiple health issues during home quarantine because of caused by the COVID-19 pandemic attack. We recruited 50 subjects individuals who are have aging any history of systemic chronic health issues disease, and 50 individuals subjects with no health issues for this cross-sectional cross-sectional study. Three questionnaires were used to evaluate the Level of mental health was evaluated through the [depression anxiety stress scale (DASS-21)], sleep quality was evaluated through [Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI)], and quality of life (QoL) was evaluated through a [short form of health-related questionnaire (SF-36)] of participants. Statistical analysis was carried out using with a Sstudent’s t-test, and using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software, version16. Baseline demographic characteristics were homogenous for both groups of participants. Intergroup analysis revealed statistically significant differences in mental health (p < 0.001), sleep quality (p < 0.001), and QoL (p < 0.001) between the two groups. Our findings indicated that individuals subjects with chronic health issues exhibited higher mental health problems, lower quality of sleep and have a lower health-related (QoL) quality of health.