Financial Reflections of the Covid-19 Process on Individuals' Life

Abstract

The research was carried out to reveal the financial reflections of Covid 19 on the lives of individuals in Turkey. The data are grouped under 4 main headings; sociodemographic and lifestyle information of individuals, health expenditures, other expenditures and savings. The data obtained in the research were analyzed with the SPSS 22.0 package program. First, frequencies and percentages were given according to the individual and demographic characteristics of the participants. Since the data were not normally distributed and the variances were heterogeneous, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests were applied. In terms of gender and other expenditures and savings; Between catching Covid-19 and health expenditures; between quality of life and health and other expenditures; between being in the risk group and savings; among education, place of residence, marital status, income level, occupation and health expenditures, other expenditures and savings; between smoking and health and other expenses; Statistically significant differences were found between alcohol consumption and savings.