Impact on health and provision of healthcare services during the COVID-19 lockdown in India: a multicentre cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a national lockdown in India from midnight on 25 March 2020, with conditional relaxation by phases and zones from 20 April. We evaluated the impact of the lockdown in terms of healthcare provisions, physical health, mental health and social well-being within a multicentre cross-sectional study in India.

Methods

The SMART India study is an ongoing house-to-house survey conducted across 20 regions including 11 states and 1 union territory in India to study diabetes and its complications in the community. During the lockdown, we developed an online questionnaire and delivered it in English and seven popular Indian languages (Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Telegu, Kannada, Bengali, Malayalam) to random samples of SMART-India participants in

SUBMITTER: Raman R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7817386 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature