COVID-19 And Lifestyle Challenges: A Rapid Review.

[摘要] The emergence of Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a massive impact on entire human population,causing a sudden change in their lifestyle, with social and economic consequences. Lockdown measures wereimplemented in several countries to limit the spread of this pandemic. However such restrictions and confine- ments could precipitate unintended negative consequences on lifestyle behaviors. We reviewed the data avail- able on the impact of this pandemic. The main objective of this review was to assess the effect of imposed lock- down on the changes in general population all across the globe. The data available todate indicates that thesociety has undergone changes during lockdown to mitigate the spread of infection and such changes have be- come part of the lives of people- hygiene and health consciousness, work from home, online teaching, digitalshopping, changing internet habits are just a few to name.This pandemic may have both positive and detri- mental impact on the psychological health and various other aspects of lifestyle behaviors of people.

[学科分类] 工程和技术（综合）

[关键词] Covid-19;lifestyle changes;diabetes;anxiety;psychological health