ABSTRACT

Context: The Main Purpose of Patient counseling is mainly to improve the patient’s Quality of life and to provide pharmaceutical care for patients through which all the drug therapy related problems were minimized. Aim: The Aim of the study is to access the impact of patient counseling on the Knowledge, Attitude, Practices and Quality of life in COVID Survivors with post COVID Complications. Materials & Methods: It is a Prospective interventional study. Based upon the Patient selection criteria, the participants were selected and they were allocated into control and test groups respectively, the patient in the control and test groups were counseled whereas the controlled group receives counseling at the end of the study. The follow up cases was carried out over a period of 6 months, the scores were evaluated and statistically analysed for Knowledge, Attitude, Practices and Quality of life. Results: It was found that the Test groups which received the extensive patient counseling shows significant improvement in the Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices as well as the Quality of life when compared to the control groups. Conclusion: Our study found that the Patient counselling provided has an impact on the People thus the Patient counselling significantly improves the Knowledge outcomes in the Patients. The Psychological intervention like Patient counselling will significantly increases the Patient Quality of Life and it must be encouraged as this useful thing has to be circulated than that of the Myths and rumours about the COVID Sequale. Keywords: COVID-19, Post-COVID Complications, Patient Counseling, Quality of Life
Publication date: 01/06/2023

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2023/12.6.6964