Impact of coronavirus anxiety and sleep disorders on somatic symptoms among youth post-pandemic

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE
Author/s Robert S. James, K. Suryasree, Regis S. Susai
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2025/137
Language English Pages 18 P. 77-94 File size 223 KB
DOI 10.3280/SR2025-137004
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The Covid-19 pandemic has posed a lot of challenges to the global health sys-tem. The second wave of Covid-19 in India was deadly affected the mental health status of people especially the youth. The relationship between coronavirus anx-iety and somatic symptoms among youth post pandemic has not been addressed widely. This study is attempted to explore the prevalence of coronavirus anxie-ty, sleep disorders and somatic symptoms among youth post Covid-19 in Tamil Nadu, India. A total of 326 youth were assessed through a survey with Corona-virus Anxiety Scale (Cas), Sleep disorders Symptom Checklist (Sds-CL-17) and Somatic Symptom Disorder-B Criteria Scale (Ssd-12). The frequency of high lev-el of symptoms of coronavirus anxiety, somatic symp-toms, insomnia, narcolepsy, Obstructive Sleep Apnea (Osa) and Restless Legs Syndrome (Rls) among youth was observed 38.3%, 23%, 2.8%, 30.7%, 19.3% and 15.6% respectively. Youth differed significantly in their somatic symptoms based on demographic variables such as gender, birth order, family type and area of living.

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Robert S. James, K. Suryasree, Regis S. Susai, Impact of coronavirus anxiety and sleep disorders on somatic symptoms among youth post-pandemic in "SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE " 137/2025, pp 77-94, DOI: 10.3280/SR2025-137004