IMPACT OF COVID 19 PANDEMIC ON TEACHING ACTIVATES AND QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG PRESIDENTS AT SPHMMC,2021

Abstract

ABSTRACT Background: Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the public health emergency that emerged from the city of Wuhan of China in December 2019, has been declared a pandemic in March 2020 by the World Health Organization. Health care workers (HCW) are on the frontline to fight the disease and are particularly at high risk of being infected. The rapid dissemination of the disease and influx of patients not only increased the workload, but also disrupted the residency training programs. The fear within the professional and personal lives can lead to physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion of the HCW and is associated with multiple psychiatric problems. Objective: this study assessed the impact of COVID 19 pandemic on teaching activities and quality of life among residents in SPHMMC from February 1, 2021 to May 31, 2021. Method and Material: institution based descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on residents of SPHMMC by using a structured and standardized questionnaire. Data will be analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) for windows version 25.0. Descriptive statistics will be used to describe the independent variables and association between variables will be checked using P- value. P-value less than 0.05will be statistically significant Results: 117 (53.4%), 101 (46.1%), 153 (69.9%), 141 (64.4%), 134 (61.2%), 88 (40.2%), 84 (38.4%), 100 (45.7%), 124 (56.6%) responded that number of admitted patients, ward time round, teaching activities, Diagnostic procedures, Minor procedures, Working hours, Major surgeries, detachments and progressive assessment are reduced after COVID-19 pandemic respectively. 182 (83.1%) responded that they had virtual teaching. 115 residents (52.5%) had history of COVID infection and 37 (42%) responded that their family got the infection because of them. Those who are not vaccinated had 1.7 times increased odds of acquiring the infection. On QOL, 112 (51%) had poor quality of life while those who had COVID infection had 3.17 times increased chance of having poor QOL (p= < 0.0001). 18 (8.22%) residents are depressed of which 6 are from GYNI / OBS department. Conclusion: This study revealed that COVID-19 resulted in a significant reduction of teaching activities among residents, a negative impact in quality of life and significant portion of the residents were depressed as a result of COVID-19.