Psychological Well-being among Ibadan Residents in the COVID Era: Role of Psychological factors

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected nearly every aspect of daily living across the globe, mental health professionals and communities at large have raised concerns over the potential psychological impact of the pandemic. Relevant to the challenge the current pandemic poses on human existence, recent studies have shown that preventive and control regulations to curtail the spread of COVID-19 may exacerbate the symptoms of OCD especially among those who strictly comply with these guidelines. Therefore, our aim in this study was to understand whether psychological well-being is influenced by peoples’ adherence to COVID-19 prevention and control guidelines, contamination obsession and washing compulsion among a sample of Ibadan residents. An online cross-sectional survey was conducted to sample 190 participants using purposive and snowball sampling technique to optimized data collection. In line with the objectives of the study we generated five hypotheses that were tested using appropriate inferential statistic. Our findings showed that adherence to COVID-19 prevention and control guidelines correlated positively with contamination obsession and washing compulsion.