MATERIAL AND METHODS
This population-based cross-sectional study was conducted during May and June 2021. Participants were selected from 22 family health centers (FHCs) in the city center. The study included individuals aged 20-59 years who applied to FHCs for any reason, were diagnosed with COVID-19 at least four weeks ago, and showed long COVID-19 smptoms. Twenty volunteers from each FHCs were included in the study.
Further inclusion criteria were 1) being male or female, 2) having no vision, hearing, or speaking problems, and (3) speaking Turkish.
Verbal and written consent was obtained from those who agreed to participate in the study with the approval of the ethics committee of the study.
At the first stage, the participants were asked about their socio-demographic characteristics and parameters related to COVID-19 disease. This section of the questionnaire required respondents to give information on age, gender, marital status, educational status, working status, chronic conditions, smoking behaviour, height, weight, time since first infected, type of treatment, symptoms experienced after COVID-19 and duration of sypmtoms. In the second stage, questions including COVID-19 quality of life and health perception scale were applied to the participants.