Psychosocial Impact of COVID-19 on Different Strata of Society and Suggested Interventions

Author(s):

Naeem Aslam*

The psychosocial impacts of coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) are profound. It has affected almost all the facets of society irrespective of age, gender and other sociodemographic compositions. It has produced the health and economic loses are at one hand and psychological complication and corona phobia at the second hand. There may be hardly any person who is not affected by this pandemic. There are, however, certain groups that are more vulnerable to be affected than the rest of the population. These include individuals who were suffered from COVID illness, frontline workers or medical staff, individuals with preexisting psychiatric illness, children, elderly and people from marginalized society. Psychological problems of these specific groups are discussed and interventions are suggested.