. Anant Kumar Verma; . Arshad Ayub; . Ganesh Prasad Singh; . Amardeep Kumar
Volume 12, Issue 9 , October 2022, , Pages 1-6
Abstract
BACKGROUND: There are no studies pertaining to resilience related to novel coronavirus focusingprimarily on doctors and undergraduate medical students in India. The objectives of this ...
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BACKGROUND: There are no studies pertaining to resilience related to novel coronavirus focusingprimarily on doctors and undergraduate medical students in India. The objectives of this surveywere to assess the resilience and its various domains that are needed for dealing with novelcoronavirus among doctors, interns, and undergraduate students and to see its correlation withvarious sociodemographic factors.MATERIALS AND METHOD: An online cross-sectional survey was done among doctors andundergraduate medical students during the first COVID-19 wave from May 19, 2020 to June 8, 2020.A total of 434 responses were recorded during the study period. All the recorded full responses wereconsidered for data analysis. Snowball sampling was used for this study. Resilience was assessedusing three items, which were taken from the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS).RESULT: Out of 434 responses, 51.7% (224/433) of the respondents were non‑resilient. The presenceof the elderly at home was significantly associated with poor resilience (P = 0.02). Resilience wasnot significantly associated with other socio‑demographic factors. Younger respondents (P = 0.019)and females (P =0.0004) were of the opinion that they recovered late from stressful events. Elderlyrespondents (P = 0.003) and those with chronic illness (P = 0.008) reported that it is hard for themto snap back if something bad happens (P = 0.003).CONCLUSIONS: More than half of the doctors and undergraduate medical students were found tobe non-resilient, underscoring the urgent need to take steps to improve the resilience of this groupof frontline workers.