Assess the quality of life among post COVID19 patients in selected community at Kanchipuram .District,Tamil Nadu

Abstract

COVID-19 has generated great concern in the population due to its ability to cause serious conditions in a large proportion of infected patients. In addition, critical patients greatly require therapies such as mechanical ventilation, which usually requires prolonged intensive care unit stays and post-COVID-19 rehabilitation, thus, such factors can decrease health-related quality of life due to the physical, cognitive, and mental impairment so find individuals with critical illnesses. Health Related Quality of Life provides a complete assessment of the impact of a disease on patients' daily lives. A structured review was recently conducted to verify the scores fromdifferentHealthRelatedQualityofLifequestionnairesinpost-COVID-19patients.

A study to assess the quality of life among post covid patients in selected community at Kanchipuram.District, Tamil Nadu. The objectives are to assess the health related quality of life among post-COVID-19 patients and to associate the health related quality of life among post-COVID-19 patients with selected demographic variables .post-COVID-19 patients of 18 to50 and above 50yrs of age group were selected for the study. A sample of 60 post-COVID-19 patients were selected in community by using Purposive sampling fulfilled the inclusion criteria were selected for the study.

An extensive review of literature and guidance by experts formed the foundation to the development of the study. The data collection tool was validated and reliability was established. The data collection for the study was done from the collected data was tabulated and analyzed. The frequency distribution in the study shows that majority 80 (67%) were having average quality of life , 30 (25%) of them having good quality of life  and 10 (8%) of them having poor quality of life. Regarding association there is significant association of factors affecting health related quality of life with demographic variables like type of family, monthly family income, occupation, economical status. But there is no significant association between factors affecting health related quality of life like age, gender, occupation, economic status and education status.