A Study on Human Behaviour during Covid-19 Pandemic among Indians

Abstract

Abstract: COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) was the reason for causing a pandemic all over the world which created many problems and challenges for all countries. Increasing number of cases in every nation led the authorities of each country to put lockdown measures all over the nation. Although the lockdown implemented was to prevent the community from the spread of infection, but it had its own effect on mental as well as physical health and lifestyle of people. We devised a survey to focus on the physiological, psychological, and behavioural changes witnessed during the lockdown and to establish a correlation between the lockdown attributing to the negative changes developed during this period such as weight gain, increase in sleeping hours and screen time. All the data was gathered through a questionnaire via Google forms which was distributed to a substantial amount of people through social networking platforms. The responses received were 421 in total, which on analysis and comparison of the pre-lockdown and post-lockdown periods, showed trends like 58.5% people had increase in BMI, 33.9% people had increased more than 7 hours of daily screen time whereas 46.5% had a reduction of working hours down to less than 6 hours. Keywords: COVID-19, lockdown, BMI, working hours, screen time, sleeping time