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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2898</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2020.12182</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>COVID-19: Survey on Awareness Level and Psychological Status During the Outbreak&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>P.</surname><given-names>Vaishnavi</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ramkumar</surname><given-names>S.</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>22</day><month>09</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>8)</volume><issue/><fpage>85</fpage><lpage>94</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: Research information is required to create evidence-driven methodologies to decrease unfavourable mental impacts and psychiatric side effects amid the pandemic situation. Objective: This survey aimed to discover awareness level, behaviour, attitudes and also to analyze the psychological status related to coronavirus outbreak. Methods: The online survey was conducted by snowball examining methods. Results: This study included 520 respondents from different cities of Tamilnadu. 71% of the members are aware of the preventive measures. 48% of the members are with high fear and uneasiness since of this widespread circumstance in Tamilnadu. 52% of the members feel boredom, frustrated since of lost their open-air exercises. 72% of the participants feel a change of mood and behaviour. There is a positive correlation between change in sleep and eating pattern and time saved. Conclusion: During the various stage of COVID-19 episode in Tamilnadu the results are compared to the existing COVID-19 widespread outbreak; they gain access to awareness level, fear, emotional distress, as the affected persons are viewed as moderate. It is very important to take care of the mental welfare of the population and proactive steps to play down its inconvenient impacts amid the COVID-19 pandemic.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>COVID-19</kwd><kwd> Coronavirus</kwd><kwd> Awareness Level</kwd><kwd> Psychological Impact</kwd><kwd> Stress</kwd><kwd> Depression.</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
