Awareness and Anxiety towards COVID-19 in Indian Population

Abstract

The Novel Corona Virus Disease i.e. nCoV-19 originated from China in December 2019 and spread rapidly, crossed borders and infected lakhs of people universally. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared it as a medical emergency and named it pandemic. The increasing number of cases and death has heightened the level of stress among the people. The present study made an attempt to analyse the awareness and anxiety levels among the Indian population during this pandemic situation using online questionnaire technique and getting it filled by snowball sampling method. In total 502 responses were received, which were analysed through descriptive statistics and principal component analysis (PCA). The analysis suggested that there is a need of the awareness programme among the people and also some mindfulness programmes are required for reducing stress and anxiety as situation of COVID-19 is getting worse day by day in India.