ANXIETY, RESILIENCE AND COPING STRATEGIES AMONG THE HEALTH CARE WORKERS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Background:The covid-19 pandemic has proved to be the most difficult period of everyone's life,as it brings with it the fear of infection, fatality, physical difficulties, lack of certainty around people's life, However it is considerably challenging for the health care workers, for their nature of work makes them more vulnerable to get infected than the normal population,It is common for the health care workers to experience anxiety in the face of current pandemic.thus the present study focuses on the anxiety levels and coping strategies among health care workers during pandemic .The objective of this study is to assess levels of anxiety,resilience and ways of coping among health care workers.A total of 40 samples shall be taken for the present study,The standardized tools to be used in the study are a) Covid-19 anxiety scale (Lee, S.A 2020) b) Brief Cope Inventory (Carver 1997) c) Brief Resilience scale (smith and colleagues 2008) The hypotheses of the current study states that 1)There is a significant level of anxiety among health care workers 2) There is a significant relationship between the levels of anxiety and coping strategy 3) There is a significant relationship between resilience and levels of anxiety, 4) There is a significant difference between gender and level of anxiety 5) There is a significant difference between gender and coping strategy. The present study shall be insightful in terms of understanding the prevalence of anxiety among health care workers,and the role of coping strategy plays in elevating or ameliorating anxiety,It can be helpful in planning the interventions for future studies.The present study shall be helpful in understanding the level of anxiety among health care workers and what kind of coping strategy are predominantly used by the health care workers, and how adaptive/ maladaptive coping strategy influence the levels of anxiety,thus it can be helpful in planning the appropriate interventions for the target population in the future studies.