Screening for psychosocial distress of post‐Covid‐19 among survivors using the self-reporting questionnaire 29 (SRQ-29)

Abstract

Background: The Covid-19 pandemic is still occurring in Indonesia today. This condition can cause psychosocial problems in some post-Covid-19 survivors. The impacts felt by post-Covid-19 survivors include sadness, helplessness, hopelessness, post-traumatic symptoms (PTSD), panic, stress, anxiety, depression, loneliness, fear, anger, stigma, and concerns about socio-economic status.

Purpose: To determine the psychosocial problems experienced by post-covid-19 survivors.

Method: The research method used was descriptive quantitative with the population, namely post-covid-19 survivor patients at the Public Health Center Keranggan. The sampling technique, namely Accidental Sampling, obtained a sample size of (n=101). This research was conducted on post-Covid-19 survivors registered at the Keranggan Community Health Center UPT using the Self-Reporting Questionnaire 29 (SRQ-29) instrument developed by the World Health Organization in 1994 with a validity test of 0.929 and a reliability of 0.796. The data analysis used was univariate. The data collected was (N=101).

Results: The results of data processing for 101 respondents showed that there were psychosocial problems among post-covid-19 survivors at the Keranggan Community Health Center UPT with PTSD in 43 people (43%), anxiety and depression in 20 people (20%), and psychosis disorders in 20 people (20%), and there are no people who consume psychotropic substances and drugs.

Conclusion: So this research states that as many as 83 people (n=101) at the Keranggan Community Health Center UPT (82.17%) had psychosocial problems after being exposed to Covid-19. Nurses and community health centers need to carry out evaluations, monitoring and outreach regarding psychosocial problems to post-Covid-19 survivors.