DOI: 10.36347/sasjm.2021.v07i05.002

Pages: 173-177

Covid-19 is the name of a serious pandemics in the current world. Although this disease is responsible for very limited symptoms and complications like severe acute respiratory syndrome, fever, headache, diarrhea, malaise and weakness but its probability of affecting more people is very high. For this reason, its psychological and socio-economic impact demanded more attention of the world community. We have very limited research-based information regarding this issue. The aim of this study was to evaluate the negative impact of Covid 19 on physical, mental and socio-economic condition among general non-Covid patients. This was a prospective survey-based study which was conducted in the Department of Medicine, Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College, Bogura, Bangladesh during the period from July 2020 to December 2020. In total 128 patients with several health problems, physically or virtually attended the OPD of the mentioned hospital were enrolled as the study population. A pre-designed questionnaire was used in patent data collection. All data were processed, analyzed and disseminated by MS Office and SPSS version as per need. In analyzing the negative impact on physical health of participants we observed, 10.94%, 8.59%, 7.03%, 5.47% and 3.13% patients were with feeling of physical fatigue, gaining extra body-weight, insomnia, general weakness and having chronic disease respectively. In this current study, in analyzing the negative impact on mental health of participants we observed feeling of suffocation, feeling of exhausted, fear of falling ill and anxiety about future were found as some major negative mental impacts of Covid 19 on the respondents which was among 11.72%, 10.94%, 8.59% and 7.81% participants respectively. As negative impact on social life of participants due to Covid 19 continuing remote socialization, intolerance to others, random commitment violation and ended social life were found among 8.59%, 3.91%, 3.13% and 1.56% participants ...............