Associations between anxiety and life quality of Coronavirus 2019 patients who discharged from the hospital, Phukhieo district, Chaiyaphum province

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a serious communicable disease that influenced respiratory failure. The disease affected occupational difficulty, stagflation and indebtedness, and psychological impacts such as anxiety, discouragement, hopelessness, and self-harm. It decreased quality of life. The objectives of this research were to study the association between anxiety and quality of life among Covid-19 patients after discharge from a hospital in Phu Khiao District, Chaiyaphum Province. An analytical cross-sectional study was designed. About 352 Covid-19 patients who did not have comorbidity were collected data in May 2022 by using questionnaires. Multiple logistic regression analysis was applied to analyze the data. The result revealed that anxiety was significantly associated with quality of life among COVID-19 patients after discharge from the hospital (p-value = 0.02). Adjusted confounding variable was done by controlling the effect from variables including age, educational level, monthly income, occupation, livelihood, chronic disease, and the number of family members contracting COVID-19 in the last equation, Covid-19 patients who had anxiety had the quality of life less than those who did not have anxiety accounted for 1.87 times (OR_adj = 1.87, 95% CI = 1.12 - 3.13). In conclusion, anxiety associated with low quality of life among COVID-19 patients after discharge from the hospital in Phu Khiao district, Chaiyaphum province. As a result, surveillance of anxiety in COVID-19 patients after discharge from the hospital should be conducted by reassessment and monitoring patients after contracting COVID-19 at least 6 months after discharge.