Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Perceived Physical and Mental Health and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors of People With Disabilities: A Quantitative Analysis of the International Community Survey.
Journal: American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation
Volume: 102
Issue: 2
Year of Publication: 2023
Affiliated Institutions:
From the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut (YAT-W); Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (YAT-W); Department of Chronic Disease and Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut (KW, CS); Laboratory of Life and Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine of Tangier, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tetouan, Morocco (MF); Amputee Rehabilitation Department, National Institute of Rehabilitation, Mexico City, Mexico (LPM-V); Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, University Hospital Hassan II of Fez, Fez, Morocco (AH); University Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah, Fez, Morocco (AH); Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL), US Department of Veteran Affairs, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (RC); Department of Disaster Health Sciences, Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, Sichuan University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Chengdu, China (JKB); Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Michigan Medicine Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (MP); Qatar Rehabilitation Institute, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar (UP); International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (AK); Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (AK); G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre, Vancouver, Canada (AK); Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital & Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), New Delhi, India (DRT); Multidisciplinary Department of Medicine for Surgery and Orthodontics, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli," Naples, Italy (AP); and Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea (B-YH).
Abstract summary
This study aims to determine the perceived impact of the coronavirus pandemic on physical and mental health and healthy lifestyle behaviors in community-dwelling persons with disabilities, as compared with those without disabilities.A prospective cross-sectional study was conducted with a web-based global survey.Over 3 mos, 3550 responses were collected from 65 countries. The study included 2689 responses without skipped questions as full data for analysis. Most respondents were women (82.82%), and approximately half (52.81%) were between the ages of 25 and 39 yrs, followed by those between the ages of 40 and 60 yrs (38.6%). Among the participants, 52% indicated physical activity levels decreased and 20% reported eating less fruit and vegetables than before. Furthermore, 45% noted that they slept less than before. Perceived physical and mental health and changes to eating habits during the pandemic showed a significant difference in people with and without disabilities. Furthermore, perceived effects on physical health had a significant effect on the reported degree of disability.This study indicates that the pandemic had a larger impact on perceived physical and mental health and changes in eating habits and tobacco use among people with disabilities than people without disabilities.
Authors & Co-authors:
Tuakli-Wosornu Yetsa A YA
Wang Kangxin K
Fourtassi Maryam M
Stratton Catherine C
Muñoz-Velasco Laura Paulina LP
Hajjioui Abderrazak A
Cooper Rory R
Balikuddembe Joseph K JK
Peterson Mark M
Pandiyan Uma U
Krassioukov Andrei A
Tripathi Deo Rishi DR
Palomba Angela A
Hong Bo-Young BY
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