Quality of Life in Disabled Versus Able-Bodied Individuals during COVID-19 Pandemic
| العنوان: | Quality of Life in Disabled Versus Able-Bodied Individuals during COVID-19 Pandemic |
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| المؤلفون: | Harran Al-Rahamneh, Asma AL Habees, Rahaf Baqleh, Roger Eston |
| المساهمون: | Al-Rahamneh, Harran, Habees, Asma Al, Baqleh, Rahaf, Eston, Roger |
| المصدر: | Jordan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 15:227-238 |
| بيانات النشر: | The University of Jordan, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | disabled, quality of life, able-bodied, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Pharmaceutical Science |
| الوصف: | Background: COVID-19 pandemic emerged in China, Wuhan in December, 2019. This pandemic has affected most domains of quality of life (QoL) for all individuals. Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the quality of life among disabled persons and healthy-normal individuals during COVID-19 pandemic to compare it with their QoL before COVID-19 pandemic, in Jordan. Methods: Six hundred and thirty nine able-bodied participants (33.8 ± 11.3 years) and 143 disabled individuals (46.8 ± 16.4 years) completed the WHOQOL-BREF (a tool used to measure Quality of life) which is consisted of 24 items distributed in four domains (physical health, psychology, social relationships and environment) and 2 items on overall quality of life and general health. The survey was distributed to participants online through social media (WhatsApp, Facebook, emails) between 12th June and 18th July 2021. Results: Quality of life values were higher in able-bodied participants for physical health (65.5 ± 16.3 vs. 56.2 ± 19.8), social relationships 63.2 ± 19.7 vs. 55.3 ± 21.1) and environment (53.6 ± 16.6 vs. 49.8 ± 17.9) domains. The quality of life correlated positively with individuals’ income for both groups and higher in all domains for physically active compared to non-physically active participants. Screen time significantly increased during COVID-19 for both groups. Conclusion: The authors recommended that more attention should be paid to all items of quality of life during COVID-19, particularly with regard to disabled persons, and to potential deleterious effects which may result from sedentary lifestyle behavior such as higher screen time usage during COVID-19. |
| تدمد: | 2707-6253 1995-7157 |
| DOI: | 10.35516/jjps.v15i2.322 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::fa11dabb7deee2740d240929e377419f https://doi.org/10.35516/jjps.v15i2.322 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....fa11dabb7deee2740d240929e377419f |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 27076253 19957157 |
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| DOI: | 10.35516/jjps.v15i2.322 |