Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic caused devastation among the people living all over the world somewhere a little bit and somewhere major. Previous researches ignores Rural Population of India where most of the people residing. This study was conducted specifically to measure impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Rural population of field practice area Barai in Gwalior. Material and Method: Between January 1 and December 31, 2021, 500 individuals were involved in the current descriptive cross-sectional study, which was done in the rural field practise area of the rural health training centre in Barai, Gwalior and M.P. Calculations for percentage and proportion were made, and the Chi square test was used. Both multivariable logistic regression and binary logistic regression were used. Their 95% CI was used to determine the risk ratio (OR). At the 5% level of significance, P value was observed. Software called SPSS-22 was used for data analysis. Results: In the present study 94.6% do not had any availability of food supply, 2.6% were removed from their jobs. The risk factors associated with the worse impact were occupation and type of family. As compare with the businessman the persons involved in the agriculture (OR: 2.993; 95% CI: 1.158-7.734) and labour (OR: 3.529; 95% CI: 1.250-9.961) were at higher risk. As compared with the joint family participants having Nuclear family were prone to have worse impact of COVID-19 both in univariate (OR: 3.180 ; 95% CI: 1.728-5.855) and multivariate analysis ( OR: 3.483; 95% CI: 1.757-6.905). Conclusion: A significant portion of the population was severely impacted by the COVID-19 epidemic in terms of economic, social, and psychological factors

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