THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN ON HYPERTENSIVE INDIVIDUALS WITH COMORBIDITIES OF A LONGITUDINAL COHORT IN INDIA
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Objective: The study objectives are to assess the challenges faced, individual awareness of pandemic, attitudes, and compliance of guidelines during lockdown. Design and method: This telephonic survey of 404 adult individuals were administered among hypertensive population with and without comorbidities of a longitudinal cohort in Barrackpore, West Bengal, India in Aug-Sept’2020. Comorbidities comprised with cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, asthma, OSA, BMI, epilepsy, stroke, arthritis, and cancer. Convenience sampling was considered to outline socio-demographics; chronic illness status; knowledge, attitude and practices; mood changes; and difficulties faced during lockdown. Association between variables have been conformed through multivariate logistic regression. Results: A total of 404 respondents, lone hypertensive 6.4%, hypertensive with other comorbidities 93.6%. Overall mean score of knowledge was 18.4 ± 5.2 (Range 1–23), practices 6.1 ± 1.1 (Range 2–8). Direct impacts on income 25.7%. Compliance of prescribed handwashing 93.3%, frequently hand sanitization 82.9%, using mask appropriately 91.1%, physical distancing 95.1%. Awareness of pandemic being contagious respiratory virus infection 97.8%, dispersion from human-to-human close contact 97.2%, curable 13.6%, could be fatal 4.5%, regarding symptoms 94.6%. Adverse impact due to the non-availability of medicine at home 4.5%, in pharmacy 2.2%; absence of doctors 9.4%; procured medicine at higher cost 6.2%; inaccessibility of transport 2.7%. On 3 or more drugs 33.2%, stored drugs 34.7%. Required and received medical advice due to polypharmacy 2.5%. Inadequate knowledge regarding 14-days isolation 4.5%; isolation and treatment reduce spread 2.7%; Lockdown was not an effective measure 11.4%; unconcerned regarding family members protection 34.2%; vaccine available in market 12.4%; and non-compliance of personal hygiene 6.2%. Pandemic still uncontrolled 14.4%. Multiple physical and sedentary activities less among hypertensive with comorbidities compared to lone hypertensives (AOR = 0.96, CI: 0.95, 0.97, p < .0001). Hypertensives with comorbidities expressed better knowledge and practices compared to lone hypertensives. Conclusions: Short term impact during lockdown on hypertensive with or without comorbidities individuals was not significant. For effective control of the pandemic each and every individual of the cohort needs fully to comply with the prescribed isolation regime, personal protective measures and physical distancing beside real understanding of preventive function of safe-effective vaccine for everyone when available.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".