COVID-19 Lockdown causes different
health problems in the society of Ethiopia. Among these
problems mental health problem such as anxiety,
depression, panic and fear are common. This research
aimed to redesign a neural network model of an anxiety
and depression based on Hospital Anxiety and
Depression Score (HADS) measurement techniques. We
collected 713 data from different individuals including
students, working and non-working male and female age
group from 16 to 55 using online survey. In order to
online survey, we prepared 7 questions using HADS
standard for anxiety and depression. Each of these
questions has four answer scores from 0 to 3. We
generate neural network model on the basis of
participant response and HADS measurement technique
in order to classify the level of Anxiety and Depression.
The level of anxiety and depression can be normal, mild,
moderate and severe. The model was tasted and its
specificity was 0.997940975 for anxiety and 0.996577687
for depression. We achieved the sensitivity value for
anxiety is 0.926666667 and for depression is
0.945205479. We compared the model accuracy
manually using HADS technique. We found the Average
Percentage Value (APV) 0.017379846 and 0.018365 for
anxiety and depression respectively. This study can
further designed to recommend some advices on what an
individual may do or what kind of measurements they
must do in each level of Anxiety and depression.
Keywords : Anxiety, Depression, COVID-19, Artificial Neural Network, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale.