Covid-19 and Mental Health (Article Writing)

TOPIC: How does the Covid-19 affect mental health in china and what role does social media play in it? 

ARTICLE: MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AND SOCIAL MEDIA EXPOSURE DURING COVID-19 OUTBREAK.

Published in 2020 and Cited by 288.

ARTICLE BY: Junling Gao, Pinpin Zheng, Yignan Jia, Hao chen, Yimeng mao, Suhong Chen, Yi Wang, Hua Fu & Junming Dai.

SUMMARY:

 Mental health plays an important role in life. A healthy mind leads to a healthy life but Covid-19

 outbreak greatly affected people not emotionally, financially or physically but mentally too. An

 online survey was conducted, 5851 Chinese citizens from two provinces were in the case study

 conducted during Jan 31 to Feb 02, 2020 (Gao et al. 2020). The method they chose was a

 questionnaire survey contained their age, name, gender, marital status, education, job & health

 status etc.

 The outbreak started from Wuhan, China and spread across the world 37,915,531 people were

 infected (report by worldometer.info). The pandemic put a great pressure on people. The two

  main mental disorders that were seen were Anxiety and depression. Two categories were set to

 analyze the ratio of depression and anxiety among people one of them was WHO-Five Well-

 Being Index (WHO-5) and the other one was generalized anxiety disorder scale (GAD-7). Scale

 of 10 or greater shows anxiety while 13 or lower shows depression because of Covid-19

 pandemic. The STATA version 13.0 was used to do analyses of survey. The result showed that

 60% women were under depression and anxiety and 62% people had achieved their college

 education. (Gao et al. 2020).

 The main reason for excessive depression and anxiety was social media. People see the most

 of information from their friends on WeChat and Weibo (Chinese social media apps) and it

 creates panic among them. Although the government of China controlled it through online

 consultation, courses and monitoring false information and converted it to the right one.

REFERENCES:

MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AND SOCIAL MEDIA EXPOSURE DURING COVID-19 OUTBREAK, GAO Et Al.

2020 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0231924 https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/