The Investigation of Levels of Stress, Anxiety, Depression, and Sleep Quality in the Different Leisure Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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leisure activity, stress, anxiety, depression, sleep quality.Abstract
According to the world health organization is, globally, that there have been 223,022,538 confirmed cases of Covid-19 including 4,602,882(studied for this paper on 10 September 2021) in Thailand, reported to WHO, between 3 January 2020 and 10 September 2021, infected people, 1,352,953 cases, and 13920 deaths. According to the Thailand ministry of public health, on 17 July, the first time that there were more than 10,000 cases. One of the issues is mental health such as stress, anxiety, and depression. These issues might affect sleep quality. In Thailand, regulations for quarantines at home, which contributed to more popularity in many leisure activities, but this study selected nine activities. Therefore, this research was to investigate the level of stress, anxiety, depression, and sleep quality in the different leisure activities during the Covid-19 pandemic and examine how leisure activity has relationships with sleep quality, correspondingly the aim of this study that how long each activity, the factor of sleep quality affected reducing its time of stress, anxiety, and depression. As the result, meditation activity had only a highly significant value in the score of SPST and DASS surveys (p-value= 0.01) by having the lowest means. The leisure activities have significantly a relationship with sleep quality (p-value= 0.05). There was a negatively significant correlation with the spent time for reduction of anxiety, meditation, global PSQI score, sleep latency, daytime dysfunction, step disturbance and sleep quality (p-value= 0.01, 0.05), while sleep quality had a positively significant value with the time for reduction of depression.
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