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Understanding the effects of COVID-19 on the cardiorespiratory system is imperative as it is the primarily affected system of the body. Physiotherapists play a vital role in the treatment of COVID-19 patients;therefore, our study aims to assess the awareness regarding effects of COVID-19 on cardiorespiratory system among physiotherapy students and professionals. A self-structured validated questionnaire was distributed through an online method. A total of 240 participants consisting of physiotherapy professionals, post graduate, interns and under graduate physiotherapy students were included. The study revealed that out of 240 participants, 46 participants (19.16%) had poor, 155 participants (64%) had average and 39 participants had (16.25%) good awareness regarding COVID-19 and its effect on cardio-respiratory system. Both in the professionals and students’ group, more than half the participants (71.66% and 64.44%) had average awareness and the highest awareness was found to be in the post graduate group i.e., in the good category of about 31.66%.
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The study aimed to compare the effect of different pranayama through telerehabilitation on stress and quality of life in healthy individual during COVID-19 pandemic.140 participants (aged between18-30 years) were included in the study based on inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria. The participants were randomly allocated into two groups. Group A was anulom vilom pranayama group and group B was bhramari pranayama group. Both the groups received intervention through telerehabilitation daily for 4 weeks. The outcome measures were perceived stress scale (PSS-10) and SF-12. The mean difference of pre and post scores of quality of life measured using SF-12 were significant within group A and group B (paired t-test). Both the PCS and MCS scores showed significant results. The comparison of the two groups revealed non- significant improvements in terms of stress and quality of life in group A and group B. The study found that pranayama when practiced consistently showed improvement in physical as well as mental components of SF-12. The overall stress component showed improvement individually as compared to overall score. Thus telerehabilitation also proved to be significant in terms of quality of life.
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Amid rise in Covid-19 cases throughout the world including India. So study was initiated to find out the impact on different domains of health. A self-administered questionnaire was prepared, which consist of questions per-taining to the change in physical and mental health along with the quality of life during the lockdown period and was distributed through Google forms. During the survey, a total of 663 responses were collected, of which 604 responses were analyzed. Out of responses that were calculated, the physical health of 370 participants (61.30%) was improved, physical health of 111 (-18.40%) participants has deteriorated and the remaining 123 (20.30%) participants barely changed. The mental health of 274 (-45.30%) participants was declined, 201 (33.20 %) respondents tried to maintain a healthy mental state while 129 (29.30%) members maintained a peaceful state of mind. The quality of life of 290(48%) was adversely affected, 218 (36%) participants were able to maintain a healthier lifestyle, and their quality of life increased, while 96 (15.8%) remained unchanged. Quality of life is most negatively ham-pered whereas there is improved physical health status in the adult popula-tion. All the 3 components are Physical and Mental health along with Quality of life was affected due to Covid-19 related lockdown but out of these, physical health was 61.3% positively affected while mental health and QOL were deteriorated by 45% and 48% respectively.