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Prevalence and correlates of chronic fatigue syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder after the outbreak of the COVID-19

As the SARS-COV-2 becomes a global pandemic, many researchers have a concern about the long COVID-19 complications. Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is a persistent, debilitating, and unexplained fatigue disorder. We investigated psychological morbidities such as CFS and p...

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Autores principales: Simani, Leila, Ramezani, Mahtab, Darazam, Ilad Alavi, Sagharichi, Mastooreh, Aalipour, Mohammad Amin, Ghorbani, Fatemeh, Pakdaman, Hossein
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7852482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33528827
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13365-021-00949-1
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author Simani, Leila
Ramezani, Mahtab
Darazam, Ilad Alavi
Sagharichi, Mastooreh
Aalipour, Mohammad Amin
Ghorbani, Fatemeh
Pakdaman, Hossein
author_facet Simani, Leila
Ramezani, Mahtab
Darazam, Ilad Alavi
Sagharichi, Mastooreh
Aalipour, Mohammad Amin
Ghorbani, Fatemeh
Pakdaman, Hossein
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description As the SARS-COV-2 becomes a global pandemic, many researchers have a concern about the long COVID-19 complications. Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is a persistent, debilitating, and unexplained fatigue disorder. We investigated psychological morbidities such as CFS and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among survivors of COVID-19 over 6 months. All COVID-19 survivors from the university-affiliated hospital of Tehran, Iran, were assessed 6 months after infection onset by a previously validated questionnaire based on the Fukuda guidelines for CFS/EM and DSM-5 Checklist for PTSD (The Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 or PCL-5) to determine the presence of stress disorder and chronic fatigue problems. A total of 120 patients were enrolled. The prevalence rate of fatigue symptoms was 17.5%. Twelve (10%) screened positive for chronic idiopathic fatigue (CIF), 6 (5%) for CFS-like with insufficient fatigue syndrome (CFSWIFS), and 3 (2.5%) for CFS. The mean total scores in PCL-5 were 9.27 ± 10.76 (range:0–44), and the prevalence rate of PTSD was 5.8%. There was no significant association after adjusting between CFS and PTSD, gender, comorbidities, and chloroquine phosphate administration. The obtained data revealed the prevalence of CFS among patients with COVID-19, which is almost similar to CFS prevalence in the general population. Moreover, PTSD in patients with COVID-19 is not associated with the increased risk of CFS. Our study suggested that medical institutions should pay attention to the psychological consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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spelling pubmed-78524822021-02-03 Prevalence and correlates of chronic fatigue syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder after the outbreak of the COVID-19 Simani, Leila Ramezani, Mahtab Darazam, Ilad Alavi Sagharichi, Mastooreh Aalipour, Mohammad Amin Ghorbani, Fatemeh Pakdaman, Hossein J Neurovirol Article As the SARS-COV-2 becomes a global pandemic, many researchers have a concern about the long COVID-19 complications. Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is a persistent, debilitating, and unexplained fatigue disorder. We investigated psychological morbidities such as CFS and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among survivors of COVID-19 over 6 months. All COVID-19 survivors from the university-affiliated hospital of Tehran, Iran, were assessed 6 months after infection onset by a previously validated questionnaire based on the Fukuda guidelines for CFS/EM and DSM-5 Checklist for PTSD (The Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 or PCL-5) to determine the presence of stress disorder and chronic fatigue problems. A total of 120 patients were enrolled. The prevalence rate of fatigue symptoms was 17.5%. Twelve (10%) screened positive for chronic idiopathic fatigue (CIF), 6 (5%) for CFS-like with insufficient fatigue syndrome (CFSWIFS), and 3 (2.5%) for CFS. The mean total scores in PCL-5 were 9.27 ± 10.76 (range:0–44), and the prevalence rate of PTSD was 5.8%. There was no significant association after adjusting between CFS and PTSD, gender, comorbidities, and chloroquine phosphate administration. The obtained data revealed the prevalence of CFS among patients with COVID-19, which is almost similar to CFS prevalence in the general population. Moreover, PTSD in patients with COVID-19 is not associated with the increased risk of CFS. Our study suggested that medical institutions should pay attention to the psychological consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak. Springer International Publishing 2021-02-02 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7852482/ /pubmed/33528827 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13365-021-00949-1 Text en © Journal of NeuroVirology, Inc. 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Simani, Leila
Ramezani, Mahtab
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Sagharichi, Mastooreh
Aalipour, Mohammad Amin
Ghorbani, Fatemeh
Pakdaman, Hossein
Prevalence and correlates of chronic fatigue syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder after the outbreak of the COVID-19
title Prevalence and correlates of chronic fatigue syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder after the outbreak of the COVID-19
title_full Prevalence and correlates of chronic fatigue syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder after the outbreak of the COVID-19
title_fullStr Prevalence and correlates of chronic fatigue syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder after the outbreak of the COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence and correlates of chronic fatigue syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder after the outbreak of the COVID-19
title_short Prevalence and correlates of chronic fatigue syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder after the outbreak of the COVID-19
title_sort prevalence and correlates of chronic fatigue syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder after the outbreak of the covid-19
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7852482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33528827
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13365-021-00949-1
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