Health-related quality of life and coping strategies adopted by COVID-19 survivors: A nationwide cross-sectional study in Bangladesh.

Autor: Hossain MA; Department of Microbiology, Jashore University of Science & Technology (JUST), Jashore, Bangladesh.; Department of Physiotherapy, Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.; Department of Physiotherapy, Bangladesh Health Professions Institute (BHPI), CRP-Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Shafin R; Handicap International- Humanity & Inclusion, Bangladesh Program, Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh., Ahmed MS; Department of Physiotherapy, Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Rana MS; Dhaka College of Physiotherapy, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Walton LM; Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health Sciences, University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America., Raigangar V; School of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom., Ara T; Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Rasel MAH; Department of Physiotherapy, Bangladesh Health Professions Institute (BHPI), CRP-Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Hossain MS; Department of Physiotherapy, Bangladesh Health Professions Institute (BHPI), CRP-Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Kabir MF; Department of Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation, Jashore University of Science & Technology (JUST), Jashore, Bangladesh., Islam MR; Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C., United States of America., Hasan MN; Department of Physiotherapy, Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Hossain MD; Department of Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation, Enam Medical College Hospital, Savar Union, Bangladesh., Rumana FS; Department of Physiotherapy, Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.; Department of Physiotherapy, Bangladesh Health Professions Institute (BHPI), CRP-Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh., Jahid IK; Department of Microbiology, Jashore University of Science & Technology (JUST), Jashore, Bangladesh.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2022 Nov 16; Vol. 17 (11), pp. e0277694. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Nov 16 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277694
Abstrakt: Introduction: This study aims to investigate the health-related quality of life and coping strategies among COVID-19 survivors in Bangladesh.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional study of 2198 adult, COVID-19 survivors living in Bangladesh. Data were collected from previously diagnosed COVID-19 participants (confirmed by an RT-PCR test) via door-to-door interviews in the eight different divisions in Bangladesh. For data collection, Bengali-translated Brief COPE inventory and WHO Brief Quality of Life (WHO-QoLBREF) questionnaires were used. The data collection period was from October 2020 to March 2021.
Results: Males 72.38% (1591) were more affected by COVID-19 than females 27.62% (607). Age showed significant correlations (p<0.005) with physical, psychological and social relationships, whereas gender showed only a significant correlation with physical health (p<0.001). Marital status, occupation, living area, and co-morbidities showed significant co-relation with all four domains of QoL (p<0.001). Education and affected family members showed significant correlation with physical and social relationship (p<0.001). However, smoking habit showed a significant correlation with both social relationship and environment (p<0.001). Age and marital status showed a significant correlation with avoidant coping strategies (p<0.001); whereas gender and co-morbidities showed a significant correlation with problem-focused coping strategies (p<0.001). Educational qualification, occupation and living area showed significant correlation with all three coping strategies(p<0.001).
Conclusion: Survivors of COVID-19 showed mixed types of coping strategies; however, the predominant coping strategy was avoidant coping, followed by problem-focused coping, with emotion-focused coping reported as the least prevalent. Marital status, occupation, living area and co-morbidities showed a greater effect on QoL in all participants. This study represents the real scenario of nationwide health-associated quality of life and coping strategies during and beyond the Delta pandemic.
Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests regarding publication of this journal.
(Copyright: © 2022 Hossain et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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