Nutrition and Clinical Services Division (NCSD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka, 1212, Bangladesh.
Department of Public Health, North South University, Bashundhara, Dhaka, 1229, Bangladesh.
BMC Health Serv Res. 2022 May 30;22(1):716. doi: 10.1186/s12913-022-07961-z.
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has taken the lives of more than 100,000 healthcare workers (HCWs) so far. Those who survived continuously work under immense physical and psychological pressure, and their quality of life (QoL) is impacted. The study aimed to assess the QoL among HCWs in Bangladesh who recovered from COVID-19.
This cross-sectional, telephonic interview-based study was conducted among 322 randomly selected HCWs from Bangladesh who were positive for COVID-19 and recovered from the infection before the interview. Data were collected from June to November 2020. We examined the impact of COVID on the QoL of the participants using the validated Bangladesh version of the World Health Organization (WHO) Quality of life questionnaire brief (WHOQOL-BREF). All analyses were done by STATA (Version 16.1).
More than half of the health care professionals were male (56.0%), aged between 26-35 years (51%), and completed graduation (49%). The majority of the study participants in the four domains were married (n = 263, 81%) and living in Dhaka. The average score of the participants was 70.91 ± 13.07, 62.68 ± 14.99, 66.93 ± 15.14, and 63.56 ± 12.11 in physical, psychological, social relationship and environmental domains, respectively. HCWs in urban areas enjoyed 2.4 times better socially stable lives (OR: 2.42, 95% CI: 1.18-4.96) but 72% less psychologically satisfactory lives.
HCWs' post-COVID quality of life depended on variable interaction of demographic socioeconomic, including old age, female sex, graduation, and higher monthly income. The findings indicate the issues which should be addressed to improve the quality of life of frontline workers who fight against the pandemic.
由 SARS-CoV-2 病毒引起的 2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）已导致超过 10 万名医护人员（HCWs）丧生。那些幸存下来的人持续承受着巨大的身心压力，他们的生活质量（QoL）受到影响。本研究旨在评估孟加拉国从 COVID-19 中康复的 HCWs 的生活质量。
这是一项横断面、基于电话访谈的研究，在孟加拉国随机选择了 322 名曾感染 COVID-19 并在访谈前已从感染中康复的 HCWs 进行。数据收集于 2020 年 6 月至 11 月。我们使用经过验证的孟加拉国版世界卫生组织（WHO）生活质量问卷简表（WHOQOL-BREF）评估 COVID 对参与者生活质量的影响。所有分析均使用 STATA（版本 16.1）进行。
超过一半的卫生保健专业人员是男性（56.0%），年龄在 26-35 岁之间（51%），并完成了本科教育（49%）。在四个领域中，大多数研究参与者都是已婚（n=263，81%），居住在达卡。参与者的平均得分分别为 70.91±13.07、62.68±14.99、66.93±15.14 和 63.56±12.11，分别在身体、心理、社会关系和环境领域。居住在城市地区的 HCWs 在社会稳定性方面的生活质量要好 2.4 倍（OR：2.42，95%CI：1.18-4.96），但心理满意度要低 72%。
HCWs 的 COVID 后生活质量取决于人口统计学和社会经济因素的变量相互作用，包括年龄较大、女性、本科毕业和更高的月收入。研究结果表明，应解决这些问题，以提高抗击疫情的一线工作人员的生活质量。
