Healthcare access and quality of life of persons with disabilities during COVID-19
Not Applicable
Completed
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/01/030488
- Lead Sponsor
- Varalakshmi Chandra Sekaran
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 90
Inclusion Criteria
Male and female PwDs (RPwDs Act 2016) aged 18 years and above with blindness, low vision, leprosy cured persons, locomotor disability, dwarfism, specific learning disabilities, speech and language disability, acid attack victims, thalassemia, hemophilia and sickle cell disease who consent to participate will be included in the study.
Exclusion Criteria
PwDs with hearing impairment, intellectual disability, mental illness, ASD, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, chronic neurologic conditions, multiple sclerosis, multiple disabilities including deaf-blindness, Parkinsonâ??s disease and those who may not be able to provide telephonic interviews will be excluded from the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Challenges to accessing healthcare among PwDs with various disabilities and their specific needs will be identified.Timepoint: 3 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Data on the QOL of PwDs following COVID-19 pandemic will be available which is hitherto limited in the public domain in the Indian context.Timepoint: 3 months