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- Title
Effects Of Quarantine Lockdown On Physical HealthA Survey.
- Authors
KANNAN, AARTHI; V., VISHNU PRIYA; JOTHI PRIYA, A.; GAYATHRI, R.
- Abstract
Physical health is a condition of the body. Coronavirus outbreak leads to the need for self isolation. Quarantine is a way of separating and restricting people exposed to the disease from other healthy individuals. Keeping up physical health- improves the way of life and keeps us physically active. Proper diet, eliminating unhealthy food, maintaining social distancing and proper hygiene improves immunity and reduces the spread of viruses. A well-structured questionnaire containing socio-demographic information, knowledge, attitude and perception was framed and circulated through an online survey link. In this prospective study, the advantages are economical, easy to create, gathers large data, wide reach, heterogeneous population and disadvantages maybe response bias and survey fatigue. This survey was approved by the Scientific Review Board Saveetha Dental College, Chennai. The sample size was 100 volunteers. The results were collected and represented in pie charts. In the present survey, we found that the majority of participants took good care of their physical health, and were aware about the importance of physical health in reducing the risk of virus. Hence, it is important to improve and keep up good physical health during this lockdown in order to not fear the COVID19 occurrence and reduce the risk of virus.
- Subjects
COVID-19 pandemic; QUARANTINE; PHYSICAL fitness; HYGIENE; SOCIAL distancing
- Publication
International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research (09752366), 2020, p739
- ISSN
0975-2366
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP2.091