التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Self Perceived Health Status, Medical Care Seeking Behaviour And The Preference of Telemedicine among Non Communicable Disease Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown Period. |
| المؤلفون: |
Thomas, Joe, R., Priyanka, A. T., Jubina Bency, Raphael, Lucy, Jose, Ponnu, U. G., Unni Krishnan, Kuttichira, Praveenlal |
| المصدر: |
Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development; Apr-Jun2022, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p219-229, 11p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
NON-communicable diseases, COVID-19, MEDICAL care, COVID-19 pandemic |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
INDIA |
| مستخلص: |
Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a highly transmittable and pathogenic viral infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2). Methodology: A cross-sectional study was done to ascertain the self-perceived health status, medical care seeking behaviour and the preference of telemedicine among non communicable disease (NCD) patients who did not come for their periodic review during the COVID lockdown period in Kerala state of India. Results: The mean age of the study population was 62.42±12.8 years and the mean duration of the non communicable disease (NCD) were 6.6±7.8 years. 49.1%of the study participants did not come for review to the hospital due to fear of contracting COVID-19 and 35.6% due to lack of conveyance. On analyzing the association between the fear of COVID-19 with various factors, age was found to be of significant association Conclusion: The study showed that majority of the patients did not come for review to the hospital due to fear of contracting COVID-19 and owing to lack of conveyance during lockdown period. Patients who opted for telemedicine 60% showed willingness to continue with telemedicine in future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |
