فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: Coronavirus (COVID‑19) is an infectious respiratory disease. Quarantine is oftenaccompanied by unpleasant experiences for those who go through it. The aim of this study was todetermine the mental health status of people during quarantine in northern Iran.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross‑sectional study was conducted during the quarantineperiod of coronavirus. Conventional sampling was done from March 6 to April 6. Six hundred andforty‑two individuals were included. Inclusion criteria were living in Sari and being home quarantinedduring the corona outbreak. Exclusion criteria included hospitalization history due to corona andunwillingness to participate in the study. In this study, the General Health Questionnaire‑28 was usedonline to collect the required data. To analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistics (t‑test,analysis of variance, and correlation coefficient) were used.RESULTS: In this study, individuals were included in the investigation with a mean age of38.74 ± 11.89 (ranged from 15 to 73). Most of the participants were female (72.85%) andmarried (71.34%). According to the results, 21.5% of the participants had poor mental health.Mean mental health scores have a statistically significant relationship with gender, marital status,education, occupation, quarantine period, patients with corona, and exposure to a patient withcorona (P ≤ 0.05). Furthermore, a negative correlation coefficient was observed between age andmental health score (correlation coefficient = −0.31, significance >0.001).CONCLUSION: The average score of mental health has a significant relationship with gender, maritalstatus, education, occupation, quarantine period, corona, and exposure to a patient with corona.Given the high prevalence of mental disorders in people during the COVID‑19 epidemic, educatingpeople and planning to reduce the psychological effects of the epidemic can be helpful.