A Qualitative Study on Improving Resilience Levels Among the Survivors of COVID-19: The Way Forward

Abstract

The COVID 19 pandemic has had a great implication on the level of socio-economic and psychological status of survivors. Many forms of psychological disruptions have taken place among the COVID 19 survivors. This study, aattempts to understand the psychological problems faced by them and also analyse the level of resilience among survivors of COVID 19. The study recruited the (n = 21) COVID 19 survivors using snowball sampling. The study adopted Colizzi’s phenomological method of qualitative research design. The study results showed that the survivors of COVID 19 received very minimal social support, developed psychological distress and the level of self-resilience was found to be high. The study concludes that social workers working with COVID 19 should identify and promote healthy coping skills and self-resilience among COVID 19 survivors.