Impact of covid-19 on mental health and quality of life among the physiotherapist in DHAKA

Abstract

Purpose: To determine the impact of COVID-19 on mental health and quality of life among the physiotherapists in Dhaka. Objective: To find out the socio-demographic information, understand the infectious status, find out about the mental health status and find out physiotherapists’ quality of life in the COVID-19 pandemic. Methodology: It was a cross sectional study. Total 120 participants were attended willingly and conveniently for this study. Data was collected with COVID-19 Pandemic Mental Health Questionnaire (CoPaQ), WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire and Socio-demographic questions. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS version 22) was used for data analysis. Result: The study was conducted on 120 participants. Participants between 24-31 years was(n=22), between 32-39 years(n=61), between 40-46(n=37), male were (n=65), female was (n=55), (n=108) were graduated, (n=12) were post graduated. COVID-19 Menatl Health Impact found significant in Male group, where P value is 0.003, F value is 9.519. The Mean ± SE is 16.75 ± 1.062. overall quality of life found significance on monthly income where chi value is 8.772, P value is 0.048. Hospital admission is also found significance where chi value is 6.992 and P value is 0.03. Physical domain is found significant in vaccination group who vaccinated booster dose where F value is 2.358 and P value is .099. The Mean±SE is 95.102 ± 0.79339. Conclusion: This study investigating the impact of COVID-19 on mental and quality of life among the physiotherapist in Dhaka region. The findings of this study indicates that mental health subscales (e.g. Contamination Anxiety, Institutional and Political Trust, Positive Coping, Conspiracy Beliefs) are significantly associated with age group, gender, education, marital status, family members, monthly income, isolation, vaccination etc. Overall quality of life and quality of health is associated with age, family member, monthly income, diagnosis time, isolation and WHOQOL domains are significantly associated with age group (24-31), gender (female), diagnosing time group (April 2020-September 2020), Vaccination group (booster dose). Key Word: COVID-19, CoPaQ, WHOQOL, Mental Health, Quality of Life