Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: April-June | Volume: 5 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 88-97
Impact of Coronavirus Imposed Lockdown on Indian Population and their Habits
Mahendra Kumar1, Sachin Dwivedi2
1Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, UT, India
2King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Corresponding Author: Mahendra Kumar
Published: May 12, 2020
ABSTRACT
Background: Lockdown as preventive strategies are aimed to reduce the community transmission as a best weapon to defeat the COVID-2019. The pandemic born lockdown is clearly having an impact on the living habits of people and their social behavior.
Methods: A cross-sectional, observational study with systematic probability sampling with sample size 749 was conducted through web based data collection across India.
Results: Data shows lockdown impacts on daily routines and habits of people. Sleep, eating habits and internet uses have found significant differences. Majority of participants accepted to get affected by lockdown in their routines and habits.
Conclusion: Present web-based survey study could be important to highlight some major trends in an adjustment of our daily routine due to lockdown conditions. Lockdown situation have changed habits and way of living of given population results of responses about work from home 55% participants are working from home since lockdown condition implementation. Since lockdown 40 % of participants agreed to use more internet data on official work and 31% of participants use internet data more than usual to access social media since lockdown.
Keywords: Covid-19, lockdown, coronavirus, sleep, work from home, internet use