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.