**2.2 Adults**

During the pandemic, this age group are afraid of losing their jobs as few companies were not able to survive and few were still operating offline. This age group decided not to go to office and choose work from home as they were concerned about the spread of virus. In this case, the fear of losing jobs increases. Some are getting depressed and feeling alone as maintaining distance. According to Italian study, during the second week of mandatory lockdown, Italian adults paid much attention to information about COVID-19, they perceived it as very severe, and they were particularly worried about infecting their relatives [4]. Loneliness is recognized as a contributing and maintaining factor in the development of Alcohol abuse. Alcohol does affect the user's ability to perceive, integrate and process information. This distortion in the user's thinking does not cause violence but may increase the risk that the user will misinterpret his partner or other's behavior [5]. Consumption of alcohol make a person emotionally weak and might give rise to domestic violence. Which affects the whole family and cause loss of concentration of each family member and make emotionally weak. Some poor labor just focused to reach their home, lost their life due to psychiatric disorders.

Women have started taking measure to protect their family from virus, each item bought to home is sanitized and then used. This increases burden on women due to which they feel tensed, depressed and facing psychiatric disorders like mood extremes. The disruption of social and protective networks, loss of income and decreased access to services, all can exacerbate the risk of violence for women [6]. Women are ones who are more affected by nosophobia of COVID-19 as allergy or climate change may also result some illness. They are more worried about family members.

#### **2.3 Elder and special population**

Person with pre-existing mental illness have been inevitably affected by the pandemic. In patients, especially aged and those who require long term hospitalization in closed wards are under great risk [7]. Elderly people were at a higher risk of spreading and catching virus so other family members started keeping themselves away from them. Neither elders are having proper conversations with family nor getting absolute care. Even they are not taken to hospital for any other disease as they can come in the contact of some corona infected person. Watching news related to COVID-19 whole day is depressing them as it seems to be the end of human life (**Figure 1**).

#### **3. Survey**

To clearly understand the pandemic impact on different age group a survey on 250 people has been done by preparing a questionnaire. Each questionnaire was divided into four sections. The questionnaire included scaled questions that have

#### **Figure 1.**

*Impact on mental health of different age groups due to COVID-19 (green is least, and red is most affected).*

already been used worldwide in the previous studies and we are using same type of questionnaire for India [8]. In the first section, questions were framed to gather data on the personal profile of the respondents. The second section consisted of questions on personal awareness and attitude. The third and fourth sections of the questionnaire comprised attitude towards family and country. Questions asked the respondents to inform their choices (i) (not at all), (ii) (many times), (iii) (mostly), (iv) (every time) about various factors that affect their awareness, attitude, behavior and methods they follow to keep themselves fit.
