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Morbidity and Perceived Social Support among the Retired Pensioners During COVID-19 Pandemic in Madurai District, Tamilnadu, India

. Seelan Charles and Dr.Kulandai Arockiam


Abstract

The elderly Morbidity and Perceived social support are interconnected with each other and reflected in the remaining part of life. The mortality rate in COVID-19 has affected the elderly population and the fear of pandemics retains them as living inside the home. A descriptive study was conducted among 136 retired pensioners by adopting a simple random sampling method.  The structure of the questionnaire consists of socio-demographic details of the respondents, to measure the morbidity of the pensioner's list of personal self-evaluation questions regarding common morbidities such as health practices, common health problems, physical disabilities and chronic diseases were incorporated. To measure the perceived social support of the respondents Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet & Farley scale was used, which consist of three dimensions Family, Friends and Special person. Statistical tests such as independent sample ‘t-test, One-Way-ANOVA, Person correlation was applied. The sociodemographic variables such as age, marital status, education, nature of employment, years of service revered by the retired pensioners had significant results in morbidity and the perceived social support of the respondents. The morbidity patterns and perceived social support was observed negative correlation, which means the relationship between morbidity and social support was negatively correlated as the r= -0.256 and significant at a 0.003 level, thus higher the morbidity lowers shall be the perceived social support. 

 

KEY WORDS:          Elders, Pensioners, Morbidity pattern, Perceived Social Support.

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