prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder in people with a history of hospitalization with covid-19 and its relationship with socio-economic status

Background: covid-19 has had many negative consequences in all aspects of human life, especially physical and mental health. this study aims to determine the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) in people with a history of hospitalization with covid-19 and its relationship with socio-economic status (ses).materials and methods: the present study was a cross-sectional descriptive study and the statistical population of the study included all people with a history of being infected with covid-19 and subsequent hospitalization in shohada hospital of sarpol-e zahab, kermanshah province, iran. the sample members were randomly selected from the list of hospitalized patients. a total of 479 people were evaluated face to face using the ptsd checklist scale (pcl-s) questionnaire to examine ptsd, as well as the ghodrat nama et al.’s ses questionnaire to determine the ses. the data were analyzed using spss software, version 21 and by chi-square test, one-way anova, and pearson correlation coefficient (p≤0.05).results: the prevalence of ptsd was 31.10%. no significant relationship was observed between socioeconomic status and the prevalence of ptsd (p=0.97). among the demographic variables, only gender had a significant relationship with the prevalence of this disorder (p=0.00) and the prevalence was higher in women than in men.conclusion: the prevalence of ptsd is high in people with a history of hospitalization with covid-19. getting infected with covid-19 and subsequent hospitalization hurts people’s mental health. maintaining the mental health of this group of people should be considered.