Anxiety and depression among people living in quarantine centers during COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed method study from western Nepal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, incoming travelers were quarantined at specific centers in Nepal and major checkpoints in Nepal-India border. Nepal adopted a generic public health approaches to control and quarantine returnee migrants, with little attention towards the quality of quarantine facilities and its aftermath, such as the poor mental health of the returnee migrants. The main objective of this study was to explore the status of anxiety and depression, and factors affecting them among returnee migrants living in institutional quarantine centers of western Nepal.

Methods

A mixed method approach in this study included a quantitative survey and in-depth interviews (IDIs) among respondents in quarantine centers of Karnali province between 21st April and

SUBMITTER: B C UB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8270129 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature