Journal ArticleOpen Access
Quality of life of COVID-19 recovered patients in Bangladesh
Author Affiliations
North South University, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, University of Dhaka, Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, ...
Published InPLoS ONE
Year2021
Citations48
Abstract
Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) quickly surged the whole world and affected people's physical, mental, and social health thereby upsetting their quality of life. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the quality of life (QoL) of COVID-19 positive patients after recovery in Bangladesh. This was a study of adult (aged ≥18 years) COVID-19 individuals from eight divisions of Bangladesh diagnosed and confirmed by Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) from June 2020 to November 2020. Given a response rate of 60% in a pilot study, a random list of 6400 COVID-19 patients was generated to recruit approximately 3200 patients from eight divisions of Bangladesh and finally a total of 3244 participants could be recruited for the current study. The validated Bangla version of the…
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