Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care (Jan 2022)

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic quarantine on physical, nutritional, psychosocial life and work aspects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

  • Zafar Rasheed,
  • Mohammad S AlKhowailed,
  • Ali Shariq,
  • Tarek Salem,
  • Abdullah S Alkhamiss,
  • Rayan K Aldoubiab,
  • Ali F Alghammas,
  • Ahmed M Alshammari,
  • Abdulmonem A Alsalhi,
  • Abdulaziz Z Alharbi,
  • Saif M Alshammari,
  • Mohammed A Alnassar,
  • Sharifa K Alduraibi,
  • Sami Alharbi,
  • Waleed Al Abdulmonem

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_289_21
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 3
pp. 896 – 903

Abstract

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Background: The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a global public health disaster imposing a nationwide lockdown. This study was undertaken to determine the impact of COVID-19 quarantine on physical, nutritional, psychosocial life, and work aspects on the population of Saudi Arabia. Methods: Data collection was based on the fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) and was analyzed by the Likert-type scale. A total of 2828 individuals participated during their COVID-19 quarantine. The data were collected during June 10–17, 2020 using the psychosocial FCV-19S. Results: COVID-19 quarantine was negatively correlated with the physical, nutritional, psychosocial life and work aspects of the Saudi Arabia's population (P < 0.05). As a result of the correlation analysis, gender, sociodemographic status and having a family member dying of COVID-19, marital status (single), monthly income (<3000) and occupation (student), and lost a job or businesses were significantly associated with fear of COVID-19 (P < 0.05). Furthermore, the participants reported a reduction in their physical activity by 59%, whereas 26.5% of participants showed an increase of body weight. Moreover, 23% of participants lost their jobs during the pandemic. Conclusions: The lockdown period was associated with an increase in the COVID-19 fear score. The degree FCV-19S was varied in different categories in several aspects. Low levels of physical activity and weight gained were observed during the lockdown period.

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