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Healthcare Physician Response To Questionnaire's In Regards To Covid- 19 Impact In Diabetes Mellitus Patients

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Aim: To identify whether the health care professional and Diabetes mellitus patients are aware of Corona virus infection with the help of questionnaires and its implication on the health of individuals. Material and Methods:Questionnaires were formulated and it was send to the medical health care professional. After obtaining the consent, the parameters were assessed using a questionnaire format. We had formulated 22 questionnaires and forwarded to all healthcare physiciansBoth positive and negative response against each question was recorded in a excel sheet. In addition to the above age, gender type was also recorded. The data obtained was analyzed using spss 20.0 software.Results:Total 152 numbers of subjects had responded to the questioners. It was found that majority of the healthcare professional and patients were well versed with COVID-19 and its impact on the health. Nearly 78.90% of diabetic patient were aware about the impact on human being based on replies given by health care providers. It was well established by the answers to various question that there was increased weight of patients and glycemic profile of patients were deranged due to multiple factors. Almost 67.10% of patients were aware of ICMR guidelines as per the feedback by the healthcare providers. Many of patients were confused due to repeated changes in guidelines from multiple health organizations. All preventive methods and various dos and donts were well known by all the Healthcare profession and to larger extend it was also well known to general population which includes established diabetes mellitus patients. Based on the feedback on questioners in this study it was noted that almost 32.40% patients gained weight due to multiple factors. In terms of diet it was seen based on reply that nearly 49% of patients had skipped one meal which could be breakfast, lunch or dinner. It was noted from the reply of questioners that there were many treatment and prevention protocols which were provided by various infection control boards.Conclusion:COVID -19 is seen as a major pandemic, it has caused higher mortality in people with high risk individual predominantly. This study based on questioners have shown that almost all the healthcare professional are trying to educate their patients and majority of patient are well versed with the covid and its impact in diabetes population also.

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