Abstract

Background and Objectives: Anxiety manifests as feelings of worry, stress, and physical changes such as rapid heart rate and high blood pressure. According to the coronavirus prevention protocols, home quarantine is necessary to control the disease in the society, but doing it causes a feeling of social isolation and ultimately different psychological effects such as mood disorders, depression, anxiety and mental disorders. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between religious attitude and anxiety caused by the disease of Covid-19 in the general population of South Khorasan province. Methods:Using a web-based descriptive-analytical study, data from 507 people were collected voluntarily using a demographic information questionnaire, religious attitudes of Sirajzadeh (26 questions) and anxiety caused by covid-19 disease (18 questions). Multivariate linear regression was used to identify the effect of factors affecting anxiety related to the disease. Results: The results of this study showed that there is no significant relationship between religious attitudes and anxiety in two-variable analysis (P>0.05), but in the presence of other variables in multivariate linear regression analysis, there is a significant relationship between the dimension of consequence of religious attitudes and physical anxiety (P=0.006). Also, the level of anxiety among women (p <0.001), age group 31-40(p= 0.003), married people (p <0.001), the unemployed (p<0.001) and people with a history of chronic diseases (p=0.003) was higher. Conclusions: This study showed a significant relationship between the consequences of religious attitude and physical anxiety, as well as high levels of anxiety among different population groups. Our study revealed high levels of anxiety among different population among these groups. In this regard, the health care system should reduce the level of anxiety among high-risk groups by using psychological interventions and strengthening religious basis of the society by using religious leaders.