The Association between Levels of Psychological Distress Due to COVID-19 and Psychological Coping Strategies among Nairobi Residents

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, people have responded and psychologically coped in different ways. These psychological coping strategies not been identified how they relate to levels distress largely remain unknown, especially amongst Nairobi residents. Thus, explore association between due COVID-19 two tools assessment were used for data collection; Brief Cope inventory COVID-19-related healthy (CORPD). An ex post facto research design was survey 356 Data analysed through application descriptive statistics inferential analysis. The results show that there no statistical problem-focused with outcome (r=.222 p value >0.01) emotion-focused construct (r=.181 >0.01). However, is a correlation avoidant-focused (r=.567 <0.01). residents who engaged avoidant pandemic more prone distress, while those active problem solvers emotionally focused had stable health less distressed