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INTRODUCTION
environment, which implies that the individual has sufficient mechanisms to feel good,
integrate, respond adequately to the demands of the environment, and achieve his or
Novak, 2002).
The 2019 coronavirus disease (covid19) has been with us for almost 3 years now,
along with it is a high infectivity and fatality rates that kill a million people globally, this
Covid19 also caused universal psychosocial impact for many people such as economic
burden and financial loses and mass hysteria. The disease itself has already caused the
mental health and psychosocial health for some individual such as anxiety, acute panic,
obsessive behavior, paranoia and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the long run,
because of a multiplied forced quarantine to combat covid19 that has been practiced
worldwide to reduce the transmission of the disease from person to person (Dubey et
al., 2020).
countries across the globe to implement early quarantine measures as the fundamental
disease control tool (Rubin and Wessely, 2020). Apart from physical sufferings, the
consequences of this quarantine on the mental health and well-being at personal and
population-levels are many fold. Imposed mass quarantine applied by nationwide
lockdown programs can produce mass hysteria, anxiety and distress, due to factors like
sense of getting cornered and loss of control. This can be intensified if families need
financial losses, increased perception of risk, which usually get magnified by vague
pandemic (Maunder et al., 2003; Hawryluck et al., 2004; Brooks et al., 2020).
societies’ mental health. And reports of poor health status, unnecessary worry,
concerns for family members, and discrimination were significantly associated with
greater psychological impact of the pandemic and higher levels of stress, anxiety and
depression. Patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 may experience fear, while
those in quarantine might experience boredom, loneliness, and anger (Xiang et al.,
about by the pandemic and the lockdowns have even led the more vulnerable people to
commit suicide (Mamun & Griffiths, 2020; Mamun & Ullah, 2020; Miller, 2020;
Rajkumar, 2020).
(Barbisch et al., 2015) reported that losing autonomy, isolation away from loved ones,
anxiety and even an increase in suicide rates have been reported (Brooks et al., 2020).
Similarly, the National Center for Mental Health (NCMH) in the Philippines reported that
depression and other mental health issues were on the rise after imposing ECQ in
in Zamboanga city whose experience the individual quarantine from the suspected
contact of the people having COVID-19 cases and travel history facing difficulties inside
affecting their physical and mental health impact which varies with immediate affects
like fear of contracting and spreading infection to family members, anger, loneliness,
Theoretical Framework
Erikson where it describe the process of psychosocial development in eight stages and
explain the development of the personality, including the acquiring of social attitudes
and skills, from infancy to adulthood. In each stage, the person must complete a life
task that is essential to his or her well-being and mental health. This theory helps to
predict and understand the different psychosocial adjustment of individual experience in
Conceptual Framework
This study shows a defined concept of independent variable and dependent variable.
Individual
a. Gender Psychosocial adjustment
b. Age
c. Socioeconomic
d. Educational attainment
Figure 1 show the correlation of the two variables where the independent variable is the
considered?
a. Gender
b. Age
c. Socioeconomic status
d. Educational attainment
considered?
a. Gender
b. Age
c. Socioeconomic status
d. Educational attainment
Null Hypothesis
determine how well the healthcare services that were provided to them and to provide
General Public: this study is beneficial to every concerned citizen because this will
allow them to easily understand the people who have psychosocial adjustment during
their times that they were in a quarantine. This will allow them to communicate easily to
Health Sectors: this study is also beneficial to every health care personnel in a lot of
reasons some of which is to easily communicate with the patient, to develop the best
nursing care to their patients who has psychosocial adjustment, and this study will serve
them as an evaluation towards the care they provided and the quarantine facilities of the
Student Nurses: The result of this study helps the nursing student to have an
awareness and can formulate a better health teaching plan to the people who have
psychosocial adjustment and experiences in a quarantine facility and to the family of the
patient.
Future Researchers: this study is beneficial to the future researchers as this will serve
an individual in quarantine facilities. The respondents of this study are the adult
The following terms are defined operationally for a better understanding of concept used
in study:
COVID19 - This term refers to coronavirus disease 2019 an infectious disease that can
Individual - This term refers to the respondents of the study who experience to be in a
quarantine facilities.
behavior.
altering experience.
Quarantine Facilities - This term refers to a place where to isolate or separate a
person from other people to control the spread infectious diseases. The person who
undergo quarantine are those who were expose to an infectious diseases and those