[Importance of psychological support for patients with Covid-19 treated at the University Hospital Center (CHU) Hôpital du Mali].

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INTRODUCTION: the disease linked to Covid-19 is a SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia with strong clinical expression and highly lethal which has shaken the world since November 2019, to the detriment of certain determinants of health, in particular the psychosocial aspect. In this work, we are proposed to study the importance of psychological support for patients during the Covid-19 pandemic admitted to the treatment center of the CHU Hôpital du Mali. METHOD: this was a cross-sectional study, a prospective recruitment including 50 patients admitted to hospital from April to May 2020. RESULTS: in the cohort, 30% of patients had a notion of recent travel. Eighty percent (80%) of patients did not follow preventive measures before testing. Sixty percent (60%) of patients were asymptomatic at the time of screening. We found that 80% of the patients had not received any psychological preparation. 78% of the patients did not believe in the existence of the disease. At discharge, 38% of patients were depressed, 10% were in denial of the disease. Regarding the quality of care, 84% of patients were satisfied with the quality. We found that patients who had not received psychological preparation were eight times more likely to have depression, compared to patients who had received it, with a correlation coefficient (r) = 0.810 and a level of significance p < 0.001. OR which excludes 1. CONCLUSION: this study confirms the low importance given to the psychological preparation of patients with Covid-19 in our structure. However, we believe that good psychological preparation could help improve the quality of patient care.

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