A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE PREVALENCE OF POST COVID-19 COMPLICATIONS AMONG COVID RECOVERED STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING, BFUHS, FARIDKOT

Introduction: Nursing students who had been acquired with COVID-19 also faced post COVID-19 complications. After the recovery of COVID-19, the nursing students experienced multiple complications which include distress, frustration, irritability, loss of appetite, myalgia, hair loss, poor concentration etc. which affected their academic and clinical performance. The students have been worried that they are not capable enough in bed side work skill development because they were facing post COVID-19 complication.

Material and Methods: A descriptive research design is used to assess the post covid complications among 90 nursing students at University College of Nursing, Faridkot, and Punjab. A convenient sampling is used to collect the data. The reliability of the tool was 0.94which was done by using split half method.

Data Collection Procedure: Sociodemographic Sheet andSelf-structured questionnaire to assess the post covid-19 complications among the recovered students.

Conclusion: It was concludedfromthestudythat majority(77.8%)oftheparticipantshadmildprevalence of complications related to COVID-19. The socio-demographic factors found to have statistically significant association with prevalence of complications weregender, age, course of study, type of family and annual family income.