Programs Implemented to Help People with Stress during Covid-19

Programs Implemented to Help People with Stress during Covid-19
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Programs Implemented to Help People with Stress during Covid-19
In the last two decades, three world viral infectious ailments, for instance, the "Middle East respiratory syndrome " MERS, " severe acute respiratory syndrome "SARS" and the Covid-19 disease, have happened worldwide, subjecting the lives of human beings to various risks and challenging people in communities, government, and workplace. On the other hand, these issues have affected educational institutions across all nations. Population studies mention that the consequences of Covid-19 on human lives have instigated nervousness, downheartedness, sleep disorder, and "post-traumatic stress disease" (PTSD). The covid-19 epidemic brought a lot of concerns. For example, most organizations directed their employees to work from home, closed schools, and encouraged students to start studying online. Conversely, the transport system got halted to contain the infections, and most economic activities changed to online transactions. Some employees were laid off because employers could not pay salaries due to business disruptions. Moreover, Covid-19 killed about 5.83 million people globally. Consequently, these issues subjected individuals to various stress levels because they needed ways for ways to survive in the communities.
Stress is an experience of uncontainable and extreme disquiet linked to numerous circumstances or activities. Symptoms of stress include fatigue, restlessness, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbances. On the other hand, stress can instigate headaches, worsening mental issues, demotivation at work, and increased consumption of alcohol and other unhealthy substances. These matters called for the adoption or implementation of comprehensive programs to deal in various places to aid people to deal with the hardships of unceasing Covid-19 virus. The paper discusses various programs implemented in communities, government, workplaces, and schools to help people with stress during COVID and their effectiveness.
The covid-19 pandemic affected healthcare facilities, especially providers, who treated patients testing positive for Covid-19 infection. Physical and emotional exhaustion contributed to the psychological distress among care providers because of the overloaded health systems, rapidly changing medical data, media control, and perception of self-risk when attending to patients with the infection in question (Kaye et al., 2021). On the other hand, care providers with children needing proper care during the pandemic suffered tremendous stress because their families needed them, but that could not happen because they swore an oath to help the sick and save the world. Luckily, most nations like the United States of America (USA) and Australia became mindful of their health workers by initiating comprehensive initiatives and programs to assist care providers in coping with stress in hospitals when managing patients with Covid-19 and other linked infections.
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