Abstract :
The COVID-19 pandemic has had huge effect on the daily lives of most individuals. Widespread lockdown and preventative measures have isolated individuals, affected the world economy, and limited access to physical and mental healthcare. Geriatric population’s quality of life (QoL) is facing huge challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, mainly whose who were suffered from this disease. The normal lifestyle behaviours, including getting adequate physical activity, consuming sufficient fruits and vegetables and enacting individual preventive behaviours (frequent hand washing, facemask wearing, and social distancing) effect their daily life, which encounter their quality of life. This study aimed to investigate the QoL of the geriatric population suffered from COVID-19 disease in West Bengal. An observational, monocentric cross-sectional study was conducted 6 months after discharge of COVID-19 positive hospitalised geriatric patients between May,2021 to June 2021. Quality of life of the geriatric population assessed by WHOOQoL-BREF questionnaire. Responses to questions are assessed by Likert scale. A total of 40 geriatric people residing in rural area participated in this study. The age range of the respondents was 60 to 81 years. The mean age was 67.97 years. According to the score obtained 40% of the geriatrics population was found to have poor quality of life. QOL is significantly poor in persons whose family members had comorbidities (chi square= 8.75; p=0.03; df =1). When adjusted with other factors by multiple logistic regression it was found that presence of co morbidity of family members increased the chance of having poor QOL 16.72 times (CI=1.78-95.87; p=0.028)..
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