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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">4319</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2022.14203</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Impact of COVID-19 on RPE __ampersandsignamp;__ampersandsignnbsp;Functional Status of Patients Using PCFS Scale: A Cross-Sectional Survey&#13;
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</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Joshi</surname><given-names>Reema</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Khandare</surname><given-names>Shilpa</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rai</surname><given-names>Madhuri</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rasane</surname><given-names>Mrunal</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Banerjee</surname><given-names>Roopali</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Harilal</surname><given-names>Sajitha</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Salvi</surname><given-names>Ruturaj</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>16</day><month>01</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>17</fpage><lpage>22</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: __ampersandsignldquo;Post-COVID-19 Functional Status (PCFS) scale__ampersandsignrdquo; been recommended to evaluate functional status of post COV ID-19 patients. It is proposed that it could be used to get the information of functional squeal of COVID-19. Aim: To evaluate the Impact of COVID-19 on Functional Status in relation to age, gender, BMI, RPE level and Co-morbidities. Method: During the period of October 2020 till March 2021 study was conducted. Patients who had COVID-19 four weeks before and got discharged were included in study. Patients who were admitted in the COVID ward during last six month were contacted on telephone and those who were willing to be part of the study were included. They were called on appointment basis to OPD of Dr D Y Patil College of Physiotherapy, Pune and assessed with RPE and PCFS scale. Results: 80% of COVID-19 recovered cases have varied degrees of functional limitation while performing different type of activities ranging from negligible (67.1%), slight (19.4%), moderate (12%) to severe (3.5%) based on PCFS. Furthermore, there was a substantial variance between the score of PCFS with age (P= 0.003), gender (P= 0.014), the duration since the onset of the symptoms of COVID-19 (P __ampersandsignlt; 0.001) and lastly the presence of any co-morbid disorder (P__ampersandsignlt;0.001). Conclusions: Most of the COVID-19 recovered cases have diverse degrees of functional restrictions ranging from negligible to severe based on PCFS. These restrictions were affected by age, gender, periodic influenza vaccination, smoking, duration since symptoms onset, need for oxygen or ICU admittance, and lastly the presence of coexisting co-morbidity.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Post COVID-19 Patients</kwd><kwd> PCFS</kwd><kwd> Functional Status</kwd><kwd>SARS-CoV-2</kwd><kwd> RPE</kwd><kwd> Dyspnoea</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
