Open AccessImpact of covid-19 on quality of life in COVID recovered patients: A cross-sectional survey
Author(s) -
Jigna Chaudhary,
Sarfraznawaz F Shah
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of community health management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2394-2738
pISSN - 2394-272X
DOI - 10.18231/j.jchm.2021.035
Subject(s) - quality of life (healthcare) , medicine , cross sectional study , affection , anxiety , depression (economics) , covid-19 , affect (linguistics) , psychiatry , psychology , disease , pathology , nursing , social psychology , communication , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , macroeconomics
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. 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. 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. 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.