Mental resilience and quality of life of person with disabilities in Covid 19 pandemic

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the mental resilience and quality of life for persons with disability aimed COVID-19 pandemic. Objectives: The objectives of this study were to find out socio-demographic characteristics related to quality of life and mental resilience, to examine the prevalence of the quality of life and level of mental resilience, to know whether there has been any association between mental resilience and socio- demographic information, quality of life among disabled persons. Methods: The cross-sectional study was chosen to carry out this study among 143 participants who were selected according to inclusion criteria from April 2022 to May 2022. All data were collected through a standard structured questionnaire having socio demographic, SF 36 questionnaire, The "Brief Resilience Scale" (BRS), this used to assess the Mental Resilience among 143 participants. The inferential statistical has been calculated by independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, chi-square, and person correlation test. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS version 20) was used for data analysis Results: Among 143 disabled participants in the COVID-19 pandemic, their overall age Mean ± SD was (46.09± 15.40). Among them prevalence of the level of mental resilience were low =70.6%, normal = 19.6% & high=9.8%. Statistically significant association also found in between Mental Resilience & some of socio- demographic information such as occupation (P<.024) Residential area (P<.011), types of disability (P<.001). From SF-36 score, the participant’s physical health of quality of life was poor and mental health, social, emotional quality of life was fair. On the other hand, socio-demographic factors were found significantly associated with different domains of SF-36 questionnaire. Conclusion: Disability is a condition that influences physical and psychological health. Disability negatively can decrease mental resilience and quality of life. Mental resilience has a significant relation to Socio- Demographic. The researcher also found that, gender and occupation was significantly associated and most of the socio-demographic factors were found significantly associated with different domains of SF-36 questionnaire . Key words: Mental Resilience, Disability, Quality of life, COVID-19 pandemic Word count: 10140 1 1.1 Background The COVID-19 pandemic, commonly referred to as the corona-virus pandemic, is an ongoing corona-virus disease outbreak caused by coronavirus-2, a severe acute respiratory syndrome virus (SARS-CoV-2). It was first discovered in December 2019, In Wuhan, China (Lai et al., 2020). The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January 2020 and a Pandemic in March 2020 by the World Health Organization. Although the exact origin of the outbreak is still unknown, many early cases of COVID19 have been linked to visitors to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, Hubei, China. The World Health Organization (WHO), which refers "corona-virus disease," named this condition as "COVID-19" on February 11, 2020 (Sohrabi et al., 2020). People with physical disabilities experienced changes in routine treatment, the termination of home-based physiotherapy, lack of access to hospital care and medications, and restrictions on buying goods and services and transportation for daily activities during the pandemic. Those who acquire COVID19 may face incapacitating post-COVID symptoms, such as newly acquired disability brought on by insufficient medical care, organ damage, or mental disorder brought on by COVID19 infection (Kuper et al., 2020). People might develop disabilities due to congenital abnormalities, accidents, or illnesses that arise after childbirth, among other causes. Some physical impairment is relatively minor and temporary, whereas some are severe and progressive and finally cause early death. Some people with physical limitations require rehabilitative tools and settings to carry out daily activities (Tavakoli et al., 2022). All around the world, there are more than a billion people who are suffering from disabilities. A disability was reported by one in four non-institutionalized adults in CHAPTER-I INTRODUC