Impact of covid-19 on quality of life in COVID recovered patients: A cross-sectional survey

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Author Details : Jigna Chaudhary*, Sarfraznawaz F Shah

Volume : 8, Issue : 4, Year : 2021

Article Page : 153-155

https://doi.org/10.18231/j.jchm.2021.035

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Abstract

Introduction: COVID-19 pandemic has affected India to a great extent. Till date total of 3.30 crore peoples has been cured and discharged and 44.6 lakh are died due to covid -19 in India. COVID-19 has a long-term systemic effect on lungs, liver, spleen, anxiety and depression and persistence of inflammatory response even after getting cured or COVID negative. Which may affect quality of life. So, there is a need to evaluate quality of life in post COVID patients.
Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on the 100 COVID-19 recovered Participants. Participants were selected on the basis of inclusion and exclusion criterion. Basic assessment of symptom history, medical history and hospitalisation was done by investigator. A quality of life was evaluated using short form-36 questionnaire (SF-36). Statistical analysis was done using Microsoft excel-2019.
Results: A total of 100 participants 61% were male and 39% were female participants. We found that general health component was greatly affected with 68.50%. Following general health emotional well-being (69.68%), social functioning (68.14), pain (64.38%), limitation due to emotional problems (64.19%), energy/fatigue (63.3%), limitation due to physical health (59.61) and physical functioning (48.27%) were affected.
Conclusion: We found that there was mild – moderate affection in quality of life in covid recovered subjects. There was more affection in quality of life in participants with other comorbidities. We also found that there were persistence of breathlessness and fatigue after recovery.
 

Keywords: COVID- 19, Short form-36.

How to cite : Chaudhary J, Shah S F, Impact of covid-19 on quality of life in COVID recovered patients: A cross-sectional survey. J Community Health Manag 2021;8(4):153-155

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