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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">3144</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2020.SP74</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Awareness and Psychosocial Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Care Professionals and Medical Students Across the State of Maharashtra&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Bakshi</surname><given-names>Sanket</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Toshniwal</surname><given-names>Vaishnavi</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Agrawal</surname><given-names>Aman</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Acharya</surname><given-names>Sourya</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Shukla</surname><given-names>Samarth</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>30</day><month>11</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>mi</volume><issue>ic</issue><fpage>122</fpage><lpage>125</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: COVID 19 -The pandemic which has advanced globally in mere time, is a disease resulting from an infection by a newly discovered strain of coronavirus- __ampersandsignlsquo; SARS-coV-2__ampersandsignrsquo;. The healthcare professionals, are working tirelessly, and are honouring their services towards the general population, despite the threat of getting infected. Therefore in such circumstances, it has become essential to assess the knowledge and attitude of the medical professionals towards this pandemic, and also to discuss the effects this crisis is causing on their psychosocial stability. Objective: 1. To assess the knowledge regarding COVID-19 mode of transmission, clinical effects, its protective and preventive measures from our health care professionals and medical students. 2. To assess psychological behavioural pattern in the form of fear, anxiety, sleep patter, depression from analyzing solutions from these questionnaires. Methodology: A validated questionnaire was distributed amongst the doctors, private practitioners, Postgraduate residents, interns, medical students and the nursing staff in various government and private institutions. The results were then analysed statistically and the answers were recorded, tabulated and represented in pie charts. Results: The study would play a key role in assessing the level of knowledge, attitude and practices of healthcare professionals and medical students have in context to COVID 19. Conclusion: COVID-19 pandemic has affected psychologically as well as psychosocially on medical professionals which could be analysed from our study&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> Covid19</kwd><kwd> Psychological effects</kwd><kwd> Pandemic</kwd><kwd> Healthcare professionals and medical students</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
