Abstract
Background: COVID-19 1st started in China and the World Health Organization has announced this to be a pandemic. Isolation measures are used everywhere to rule out the expansion of the virus, lead to the rapidly growing of assured cases and deaths, both, healthcare providers and general population have been suffering from psychological problems, including stress, depression and anxiety. Aim: study aimed to assess the psychological impact of Covid -19 disease on recovered people in Taif city. Methods: Cross-sectional study was conducted among people infected with COVID -19 and recovered at Taif city, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, duration extended from February 2021 to June 2021. A self-developed electronic questionnaire was used with a total of 661 responses received. SPSS was used for data analyzed and Approval of institutional Review Board (IRB) at Taif health authorities was obtained. Results: Mild depression level of 17.4% of population and severe anxiety level of 3.2% were unveiled with a statistically significant relation between depression level and nationality, age, marital status, education and employee status p<0.05. Depression, on the other hand, was significantly and positively correlated with stress and anxiety (r=0.651 and r= 0.683) respectively. There was significant positive correlation between anxiety, stress and depression levels p=.0001. Conclusion: COVID-19 pandemic has created to some extended psychological challenges such as, stress, depression, and anxiety, for recovered people in Taif city of Saudi Arabia. There was statistically significant relation between anxiety, depression and stress levels and some characteristics of studied participants. In addition, significant positive correlation between anxiety level and depression was addressed statistically.