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Quality of Life, Fatigue, and Physical Symptoms Post-COVID-19 Condition: A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study

The magnitude of post-COVID-19 syndrome was not thoroughly investigated. This study evaluated the quality of life and persistence of fatigue and physical symptoms of individuals post-COVID-19 compared with noninfected controls. The study included 965 participants; 400 had previous COVID-19 disease a...

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Autores principales: AlRasheed, Maha M., Al-Aqeel, Sinaa, Aboheimed, Ghada I., AlRasheed, Noura M., Abanmy, Norah Othman, Alhamid, Ghadeer Abdulaziz, Alnemari, Hadeel Mohammed, Alkhowaiter, Saad, Alharbi, Abdullah Rashed, Khurshid, Fowad, Trabelsi, Khaled, Jahrami, Haitham A., BaHammam, Ahmed S.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10252651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37297800
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11111660
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author AlRasheed, Maha M.
Al-Aqeel, Sinaa
Aboheimed, Ghada I.
AlRasheed, Noura M.
Abanmy, Norah Othman
Alhamid, Ghadeer Abdulaziz
Alnemari, Hadeel Mohammed
Alkhowaiter, Saad
Alharbi, Abdullah Rashed
Khurshid, Fowad
Trabelsi, Khaled
Jahrami, Haitham A.
BaHammam, Ahmed S.
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Al-Aqeel, Sinaa
Aboheimed, Ghada I.
AlRasheed, Noura M.
Abanmy, Norah Othman
Alhamid, Ghadeer Abdulaziz
Alnemari, Hadeel Mohammed
Alkhowaiter, Saad
Alharbi, Abdullah Rashed
Khurshid, Fowad
Trabelsi, Khaled
Jahrami, Haitham A.
BaHammam, Ahmed S.
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description The magnitude of post-COVID-19 syndrome was not thoroughly investigated. This study evaluated the quality of life and persistence of fatigue and physical symptoms of individuals post-COVID-19 compared with noninfected controls. The study included 965 participants; 400 had previous COVID-19 disease and 565 controls without COVID-19. The questionnaire collected data on comorbidities, COVID-19 vaccination, general health questions, and physical symptoms, in addition to validated measures of quality of life (SF-36 scale), fatigue (fatigue severity scale, FSS), and dyspnea grade. COVID-19 participants complained more frequently of weakness, muscle pain, respiratory symptoms, voice disorders, imbalance, taste and smell loss, and menstrual problems compared to the controls. Joint symptoms, tingling, numbness, hypo/hypertension, sexual dysfunction, headache, bowel, urinary, cardiac, and visual symptoms did not differ between groups. Dyspnea grade II–IV did not differ significantly between groups (p = 0.116). COVID-19 patients scored lower on the SF-36 domains of role physical (p = 0.045), vitality (p < 0.001), reported health changes (p < 0.001), and mental-components summary (p = 0.014). FSS scores were significantly higher in COVID-19 participants (3 (1.8–4.3) vs. 2.6 (1.4–4); p < 0.001). COVID-19 effects could persist beyond the acute infection phase. These effects include changes in quality of life, fatigue, and persistence of physical symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-102526512023-06-10 Quality of Life, Fatigue, and Physical Symptoms Post-COVID-19 Condition: A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study AlRasheed, Maha M. Al-Aqeel, Sinaa Aboheimed, Ghada I. AlRasheed, Noura M. Abanmy, Norah Othman Alhamid, Ghadeer Abdulaziz Alnemari, Hadeel Mohammed Alkhowaiter, Saad Alharbi, Abdullah Rashed Khurshid, Fowad Trabelsi, Khaled Jahrami, Haitham A. BaHammam, Ahmed S. Healthcare (Basel) Article The magnitude of post-COVID-19 syndrome was not thoroughly investigated. This study evaluated the quality of life and persistence of fatigue and physical symptoms of individuals post-COVID-19 compared with noninfected controls. The study included 965 participants; 400 had previous COVID-19 disease and 565 controls without COVID-19. The questionnaire collected data on comorbidities, COVID-19 vaccination, general health questions, and physical symptoms, in addition to validated measures of quality of life (SF-36 scale), fatigue (fatigue severity scale, FSS), and dyspnea grade. COVID-19 participants complained more frequently of weakness, muscle pain, respiratory symptoms, voice disorders, imbalance, taste and smell loss, and menstrual problems compared to the controls. Joint symptoms, tingling, numbness, hypo/hypertension, sexual dysfunction, headache, bowel, urinary, cardiac, and visual symptoms did not differ between groups. Dyspnea grade II–IV did not differ significantly between groups (p = 0.116). COVID-19 patients scored lower on the SF-36 domains of role physical (p = 0.045), vitality (p < 0.001), reported health changes (p < 0.001), and mental-components summary (p = 0.014). FSS scores were significantly higher in COVID-19 participants (3 (1.8–4.3) vs. 2.6 (1.4–4); p < 0.001). COVID-19 effects could persist beyond the acute infection phase. These effects include changes in quality of life, fatigue, and persistence of physical symptoms. MDPI 2023-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC10252651/ /pubmed/37297800 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11111660 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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AlRasheed, Maha M.
Al-Aqeel, Sinaa
Aboheimed, Ghada I.
AlRasheed, Noura M.
Abanmy, Norah Othman
Alhamid, Ghadeer Abdulaziz
Alnemari, Hadeel Mohammed
Alkhowaiter, Saad
Alharbi, Abdullah Rashed
Khurshid, Fowad
Trabelsi, Khaled
Jahrami, Haitham A.
BaHammam, Ahmed S.
Quality of Life, Fatigue, and Physical Symptoms Post-COVID-19 Condition: A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study
title Quality of Life, Fatigue, and Physical Symptoms Post-COVID-19 Condition: A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study
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title_fullStr Quality of Life, Fatigue, and Physical Symptoms Post-COVID-19 Condition: A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study
title_full_unstemmed Quality of Life, Fatigue, and Physical Symptoms Post-COVID-19 Condition: A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study
title_short Quality of Life, Fatigue, and Physical Symptoms Post-COVID-19 Condition: A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study
title_sort quality of life, fatigue, and physical symptoms post-covid-19 condition: a cross-sectional comparative study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10252651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37297800
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11111660
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