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Psychosocial Issues among the “Faceless Corona Warriors” (Hospital Housekeeping Staff and Sanitary Workers on COVID-19 Duty): An Exploratory Survey from a Tertiary Healthcare Center from North India

Background: The existing literature on the mental health outcomes of frontline healthcare workers (HCWs) is silent over the psychosocial issues being faced by the housekeeping/hospital attendants (HAs) and sanitary attendants (SAs) who are also actively involved in COVID-19 patient care and in biomedical waste management This group of HCWs can be considered as the "faceless corona warriors", and their psychosocial issues needs to be focussed upon too Aim: To evaluate the psychosocial issues and problems related to issues specific to carrying out duties in COVID-19 wards among the HAs and SAs Materials and methods: An interview-based approach (cross-sectional assessment) conducted by healthcare professionals in the local languages of the HAs and SAs was followed Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) were used to assess depression and anxiety, respectively Along with it, a self-designed questionnaire was added to evaluate the different emotional states and problems faced by the HAs and SAs during their COVID-19 duty