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Self-reported long COVID-19 symptoms are rare among vaccinated healthcare workers
INTRODUCTION: COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected healthcare workers (HCWs). Here, we evaluate the occurence of long-COVID-19 symtoms among HCWs. METHODS: This is a questionnaire-based study of HCWs who had COVID-19 in two medical centers in Saudi Arabia and were mostly vaccinated. RESULTS: The stu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10240906/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37315430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2023.05.037 |
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author | AlBahrani, Salma AlBarrak, Ali AlGubaisi, Nawal Alkurdi, Hamoud Alburaiki, Dalia AlGhamdi, Abdulrahaman AlOthaiqy, Mohammed Tayeb, Sarah Tayeb, Nesreen Abdraboh, Salimah Khairi, Amani Alshareef, Lujain AlHarbi, Asma AlRabeeah, Saad Alqahtani, Abdullah S. Alqahtani, Jaber S. Hakami, Fatimah Hassan Al-Maqati, Thekra N. Alkhrashi, Sausan Abdulrahman Almershad, Meshael Musaed AlAbbadi, Asmaa Hakami, Mariam Hassan Faqihi, Osama Altawfiq, Kauthar Jaffar A. Jebakumar, Arulanantham Zachariah Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A. |
author_facet | AlBahrani, Salma AlBarrak, Ali AlGubaisi, Nawal Alkurdi, Hamoud Alburaiki, Dalia AlGhamdi, Abdulrahaman AlOthaiqy, Mohammed Tayeb, Sarah Tayeb, Nesreen Abdraboh, Salimah Khairi, Amani Alshareef, Lujain AlHarbi, Asma AlRabeeah, Saad Alqahtani, Abdullah S. Alqahtani, Jaber S. Hakami, Fatimah Hassan Al-Maqati, Thekra N. Alkhrashi, Sausan Abdulrahman Almershad, Meshael Musaed AlAbbadi, Asmaa Hakami, Mariam Hassan Faqihi, Osama Altawfiq, Kauthar Jaffar A. Jebakumar, Arulanantham Zachariah Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A. |
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description | INTRODUCTION: COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected healthcare workers (HCWs). Here, we evaluate the occurence of long-COVID-19 symtoms among HCWs. METHODS: This is a questionnaire-based study of HCWs who had COVID-19 in two medical centers in Saudi Arabia and were mostly vaccinated. RESULTS: The study included 243 HCWs with a mean age (+ SD) of 36.1 (+ 7.6) years. Of them, 223 (91.8%) had three doses of COVID-19 vaccine, 12 (4.9%) had four doses, and 5 (2.1%) had two doses. The most common symptoms at the start of the illness were cough (180, 74.1%), shortness of breath (124, 51%), muscle ache (117, 48.1%), headache (113, 46.5%), sore throat (111, 45.7%), diarrhea (109, 44.9%) and loss of taste (108, 44.4%). Symptoms lasted for< one week in 117 (48.1%),> one week and< 1 month in 89 (36.6%),> 2 months and< 3 months in 9 (3.7%), and> 3 months in 15 (6.2%). The main symptoms present> 3 months were hair loss (8, 3.3%), cough (5, 2.1%), and diarrhea (5, 2.1%). A binomial regression analysis showed no relationship between persistence of symptoms for> 3 months and other demographic or clinical symptoms characteristics. CONCLUSION: The study showed a low rate of the occurence of long-COVID> 3 months during the Omicron-wave among mostly vaccinated HCWs with no significant comorbidities. Furhter studies are needed to examine the effect of different vaccines on long-COVID-19 among HCWs. |
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spelling | pubmed-102409062023-06-05 Self-reported long COVID-19 symptoms are rare among vaccinated healthcare workers AlBahrani, Salma AlBarrak, Ali AlGubaisi, Nawal Alkurdi, Hamoud Alburaiki, Dalia AlGhamdi, Abdulrahaman AlOthaiqy, Mohammed Tayeb, Sarah Tayeb, Nesreen Abdraboh, Salimah Khairi, Amani Alshareef, Lujain AlHarbi, Asma AlRabeeah, Saad Alqahtani, Abdullah S. Alqahtani, Jaber S. Hakami, Fatimah Hassan Al-Maqati, Thekra N. Alkhrashi, Sausan Abdulrahman Almershad, Meshael Musaed AlAbbadi, Asmaa Hakami, Mariam Hassan Faqihi, Osama Altawfiq, Kauthar Jaffar A. Jebakumar, Arulanantham Zachariah Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A. J Infect Public Health Article INTRODUCTION: COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected healthcare workers (HCWs). Here, we evaluate the occurence of long-COVID-19 symtoms among HCWs. METHODS: This is a questionnaire-based study of HCWs who had COVID-19 in two medical centers in Saudi Arabia and were mostly vaccinated. RESULTS: The study included 243 HCWs with a mean age (+ SD) of 36.1 (+ 7.6) years. Of them, 223 (91.8%) had three doses of COVID-19 vaccine, 12 (4.9%) had four doses, and 5 (2.1%) had two doses. The most common symptoms at the start of the illness were cough (180, 74.1%), shortness of breath (124, 51%), muscle ache (117, 48.1%), headache (113, 46.5%), sore throat (111, 45.7%), diarrhea (109, 44.9%) and loss of taste (108, 44.4%). Symptoms lasted for< one week in 117 (48.1%),> one week and< 1 month in 89 (36.6%),> 2 months and< 3 months in 9 (3.7%), and> 3 months in 15 (6.2%). The main symptoms present> 3 months were hair loss (8, 3.3%), cough (5, 2.1%), and diarrhea (5, 2.1%). A binomial regression analysis showed no relationship between persistence of symptoms for> 3 months and other demographic or clinical symptoms characteristics. CONCLUSION: The study showed a low rate of the occurence of long-COVID> 3 months during the Omicron-wave among mostly vaccinated HCWs with no significant comorbidities. Furhter studies are needed to examine the effect of different vaccines on long-COVID-19 among HCWs. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. 2023-08 2023-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC10240906/ /pubmed/37315430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2023.05.037 Text en © 2023 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article AlBahrani, Salma AlBarrak, Ali AlGubaisi, Nawal Alkurdi, Hamoud Alburaiki, Dalia AlGhamdi, Abdulrahaman AlOthaiqy, Mohammed Tayeb, Sarah Tayeb, Nesreen Abdraboh, Salimah Khairi, Amani Alshareef, Lujain AlHarbi, Asma AlRabeeah, Saad Alqahtani, Abdullah S. Alqahtani, Jaber S. Hakami, Fatimah Hassan Al-Maqati, Thekra N. Alkhrashi, Sausan Abdulrahman Almershad, Meshael Musaed AlAbbadi, Asmaa Hakami, Mariam Hassan Faqihi, Osama Altawfiq, Kauthar Jaffar A. Jebakumar, Arulanantham Zachariah Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A. Self-reported long COVID-19 symptoms are rare among vaccinated healthcare workers |
title | Self-reported long COVID-19 symptoms are rare among vaccinated healthcare workers |
title_full | Self-reported long COVID-19 symptoms are rare among vaccinated healthcare workers |
title_fullStr | Self-reported long COVID-19 symptoms are rare among vaccinated healthcare workers |
title_full_unstemmed | Self-reported long COVID-19 symptoms are rare among vaccinated healthcare workers |
title_short | Self-reported long COVID-19 symptoms are rare among vaccinated healthcare workers |
title_sort | self-reported long covid-19 symptoms are rare among vaccinated healthcare workers |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10240906/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37315430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2023.05.037 |
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