Magnitude And Factors Associated With Depression And Anxiety Among Hospitalized Patients With Covid-19 In Addis Ababa Ethiopia 2021.

Background: Covid-19 was identified as the cause of a cluster of pneumonia cases inrnWuhan, a city in the Hubei Province of China. It affected 178,021,491 of individuals and rnkilled 3,853,190 of peoples globally since 17/06/2021. It has the seeds of a major mentalrnhealth crisis beyond the physical effect. The mental health and wellbeing of whole societies rnand infected individuals have been severely impacted by this crisis and are a priority to bernaddressed urgently. rnObjective: The aim of this study is to assess the magnitude and factors associated withrndepression and anxiety among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Addis Ababa, rnEthiopia, 2020. rnMethods and materials: A cross sectional descriptive study focussed on measuringrndepression and anxiety using self -report scales PHQ-9 for depression and GAD-7 for rnassessing anxiety among COVID-19 patients was conducted. The data has been cleanedrnusing Epi Data version 4.6.6 and analysed using SPSS version 25 software. Descriptive rnstatistics done to identify summary values of the variables. Associations between variablernwas estimated by computing odds ratios (ORs) and their 95% confidence intervals (CIs)rnusing regression analysis. The statistical significance has been checked using p value

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