• Neslihan Cansel, İlknur Ucuz, Ahmet Kadir Arslan, Burcu Kayhan Tetik, Cemil Colak, Şahide Nur İpek Melez, Şule GümüstakımRaziyeRhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0195-0895Department of Family Medicine, Sütçü İmam University Medical Faculty, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey., Sinem Ceylan, Zeren ÖztürkGüzinGDepartment of Family Medicine, Health Sciences University, Şişli Hamidiye Etfal Research and Training Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey., Yasemin Kılıç Öztürk, Dursun Cadırcı, and Ayse Semra Demir Akca.
• Department of Psychiatry, Inonu University Medical Faculty, Malatya, Turkey.
• Int. J. Clin. Pract. 2021 May 1; 75 (5): e13996.

AimCOVID-19 pandemic has created a serious psychological impact worldwide since it has been declared. This study aims to investigate the level of psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Turkish population and to determine related factors.MethodsThe study was carried out by an online questionnaire using the virtual snowball sampling method. The sociodemographic data were collected on the following subjects: participants' experience on any signs of infection within the last month, the history of COVID-19 contact-treatment-quarantine, level of compliance with precautionary measures, the sources of information and level of knowledge about the pandemic process and their belief levels on the knowledge they acquire. Besides, the questions that take place in the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21), and Impact of Events Scale-Revised (IES-R) were asked to participants.ResultsOf the 3549 participants, anxiety was found in 15.8%, depression in 22.6%, stress in 12.9%, and psychological trauma in 20.29% based on moderate and above levels. Female gender, young age, higher education level, being single, high monthly income, presence of psychiatric illness, a large number of people living together, having any signs of infection, and contact history with COVID-19 infected person or contaminated object are identified as risk factors that may increase psychological impact. Compliance with the rules was found to reduce the risk of psychological response.ConclusionsThe risk factors for the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and acknowledging these factors can help to formulate the interventions to reduce the stress levels of the population.© 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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