MEDICAL PROFILE OF COVID-19 PATIENTS: A CASE STUDY OF SAUDI ARABIA

Present study is exploratory in nature and focuses on medical profiling of COVID-19 patients in Saudi Arabia. Data was collected through a self-administered questionnaire specifically designed/developed for the current study. It consisted of only 13 items covering both socio-demographic variables and day-to-day activities of the COVID-19 patients. Inclusion/exclusion criteria were established prior to the collection of data. The data was collected by students of Executive Masters' Program HSA613 studying in the first semester in King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. Both univariate and bivariate analysis were carried out using a statistical software NCSS to appreciate the dynamics between different socio-demographic and other day-to-day activities of COVID-19 patients. Outcomes of the study is expected to benefit both the administrative and practicing medical staff in health institutions to redo their profiling procedures vis-a-vis COVID-19 patients so that information/data collected via the admission forms in the medical institutions can be effectively used for continuous monitoring of the disease spread and also for future decision making.