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Impact of the loss of smell on the sleep quality and fatigue level in COVID‑19 survivors

PURPOSE: Patients with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are reported to have symptoms such as shortness of breath, dry cough, headache, fatigue, and diarrhea. Loss of smell is a symptom that some patients have suffered from due to inflammation of olfactory epithelium and neuroinvasion of COVID-19...

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Autores principales: Alqahtani, Abdulfattah S., Aldhahi, Monira I., Alqahtani, Faleh, Altamimi, Mohammed, Alshehri, Mohammed M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9013181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35429261
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-022-07381-z
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author Alqahtani, Abdulfattah S.
Aldhahi, Monira I.
Alqahtani, Faleh
Altamimi, Mohammed
Alshehri, Mohammed M.
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Aldhahi, Monira I.
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Alshehri, Mohammed M.
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description PURPOSE: Patients with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are reported to have symptoms such as shortness of breath, dry cough, headache, fatigue, and diarrhea. Loss of smell is a symptom that some patients have suffered from due to inflammation of olfactory epithelium and neuroinvasion of COVID-19 resulting in damage to the olfactory nerves and olfactory bulb. Losing an important sense such as smell might have unfavorable consequences on the lives of COVID-19 survivors; however, these unfavorable consequences have not been sufficiently investigated. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study, 81 COVID-19 survivors (51.85% male) answered the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Fatigue Severity Scale, and Patient Health Questionnaire. RESULTS: COVID-19 survivors who lost their smell were more likely to have poor sleep quality, high fatigue severity, and depression symptoms compared to others who did not lose their smell. Most COVID-19 survivors who lost their smell were women and had breathing difficulties. CONCLUSION: Our knowledge of this relationship will assist in establishing more efficient treatment regimens that consider both psychological and physiological factors. Future research is needed to investigate the causality relationship between poor sleep quality, increased fatigue, and depression symptoms in COVID-19 survivors who experienced loss of the sense of smell.
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spelling pubmed-90131812022-04-18 Impact of the loss of smell on the sleep quality and fatigue level in COVID‑19 survivors Alqahtani, Abdulfattah S. Aldhahi, Monira I. Alqahtani, Faleh Altamimi, Mohammed Alshehri, Mohammed M. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol Rhinology PURPOSE: Patients with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are reported to have symptoms such as shortness of breath, dry cough, headache, fatigue, and diarrhea. Loss of smell is a symptom that some patients have suffered from due to inflammation of olfactory epithelium and neuroinvasion of COVID-19 resulting in damage to the olfactory nerves and olfactory bulb. Losing an important sense such as smell might have unfavorable consequences on the lives of COVID-19 survivors; however, these unfavorable consequences have not been sufficiently investigated. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study, 81 COVID-19 survivors (51.85% male) answered the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Fatigue Severity Scale, and Patient Health Questionnaire. RESULTS: COVID-19 survivors who lost their smell were more likely to have poor sleep quality, high fatigue severity, and depression symptoms compared to others who did not lose their smell. Most COVID-19 survivors who lost their smell were women and had breathing difficulties. CONCLUSION: Our knowledge of this relationship will assist in establishing more efficient treatment regimens that consider both psychological and physiological factors. Future research is needed to investigate the causality relationship between poor sleep quality, increased fatigue, and depression symptoms in COVID-19 survivors who experienced loss of the sense of smell. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-04-16 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9013181/ /pubmed/35429261 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-022-07381-z Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2022 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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Aldhahi, Monira I.
Alqahtani, Faleh
Altamimi, Mohammed
Alshehri, Mohammed M.
Impact of the loss of smell on the sleep quality and fatigue level in COVID‑19 survivors
title Impact of the loss of smell on the sleep quality and fatigue level in COVID‑19 survivors
title_full Impact of the loss of smell on the sleep quality and fatigue level in COVID‑19 survivors
title_fullStr Impact of the loss of smell on the sleep quality and fatigue level in COVID‑19 survivors
title_full_unstemmed Impact of the loss of smell on the sleep quality and fatigue level in COVID‑19 survivors
title_short Impact of the loss of smell on the sleep quality and fatigue level in COVID‑19 survivors
title_sort impact of the loss of smell on the sleep quality and fatigue level in covid‑19 survivors
topic Rhinology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9013181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35429261
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-022-07381-z
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