Visiting Indian Hospitals Before, during and after COVID
- Title
- Visiting Indian Hospitals Before, during and after COVID
- Creator
- Pavithra E.; Janakiramaiah B.; Prasad L.V.N.; Deepa D.; Jayapandian N.; Sathishkumar V.E.
- Description
- The prevailing COVID-19 situation has brought in temporary and permanent changes in the attitude and lifestyle of people. Starting from Hand sanitizers and face masks, it extends to online classrooms and work from home culture. In case of visiting hospitals and medications, people with pre-existing medical conditions and minor health issues tend to delay or avoid visiting hospitals due to fear of infection, which is dangerous. Further, people or patients tend to access several alternatives and precautions. The alternatives include home remedies, ayurvedic medication, yoga and meditation. On the other hand, hospitals are trying to adapt online consulting and telemedicine. Besides, Cancellation or delay of nonemergency surgeries became inevitable in the lockdown phase. This survey conducted among the people of Erode district, Tamilnadu to study the perception of people concerning visiting hospitals for health issues. The results show that fear of infection, financial and transportation difficulties are the major factors which affected people from visiting hospital. Also, changing trends like Telemedicine and home remedies are likely to be permanently opted by people. In Brief, the outcomes reveal the changing attitude of people towards medication and hospital visiting habits. 2022 World Scientific Publishing Company.
- Source
- International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowldege-Based Systems, Vol-30, pp. 111-123.
- Date
- 2022-01-01
- Publisher
- World Scientific
- Subject
- alternative medicines; changing medications; hospital visits; Hospitals and COVID-19; medical trends
- Coverage
- Pavithra E., School of Social Sciences and Languages, VIT University, Tamil Nadu, Vellore, India; Janakiramaiah B., Prasad V. Potluri Siddhartha Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh, Vijayawada, India; Prasad L.V.N., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, Telangana, Hyderabad, India; Deepa D., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kongu Engineering College, Tamil Nadu, Perundurai, 638060, India; Jayapandian N., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, CHRIST (Deemed to Be University), Karnataka, Bangalore, India; Sathishkumar V.E., Department of Industrial Engineering, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimini-ro, Seongdong-Gu, 04763, South Korea
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 2184885; CODEN: IJUSF
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Article
Collection
Citation
Pavithra E.; Janakiramaiah B.; Prasad L.V.N.; Deepa D.; Jayapandian N.; Sathishkumar V.E., “Visiting Indian Hospitals Before, during and after COVID,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 24, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/15070.