A Study of the Understanding of Patients Who Have Recovered from COVID-19: The Case of Civil Hospital Jhangi Wala, District Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan

ABSTRACT

This study is an attempt to understand the coronavirus and COVID-19 from the viewpoint of recovered patients at Civil Hospital Jhangi Wala, District Bahawalpur. It investigates the feelings and experiences of those patients who suffered due to being infected with the novel coronavirus and who ultimately defeated the disease. A total of 310 Corona patients shared their feelings, symptoms, coping strategies, level of fear, and perceptions about the disease. The study used inferential statistics to quantify the data and determine the results. The study concluded that those people who were unafraid of the disease and who did not follow the Corona SOPs got the infection in the district of Bahawalpur. By profession, they were shopkeepers and laborers. The majority of the patients were those who had co-morbidities such as asthma and diabetes. The study recommended that those who are feeling symptoms of the flu such as fever, sneezing, loss of taste, loss of smell, sore throat, and/or having difficulty breathing must observe social distances and quarantine themselves for proper curation.

KEYWORDS:

• Coping strategies
• coronavirus
• COVID-19
• flu
• pandemic
• symptoms

Supplemental data

Supplemental data for this article can be accessed on the publisher’s website at https://doi.org/10.1080/15323269.2021.1982258.

Disclosure statement

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