Differences of Disabling Symptoms between Previously Hospitalized or Non-Hospitalized CurrentlyWorking Long-COVID Survivors One Year after Infection: A Descriptive Study
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López López, Laura; Calvache Mateo, Andrés; Ortiz Rubio, Araceli; Granados Santiago, María; Heredia Ciuró, Alejandro; Martín-Núñez, Javier; Valenza, Marie CarmenEditorial
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COVID-19 Long-COVID syndrome SARS-CoV-2 Disabling symptoms Persistent symptoms
Date
2023-08-16Referencia bibliográfica
López-López, L.; Calvache-Mateo, A.; Ortiz-Rubio, A.; Granados-Santiago, M.; Heredia-Ciuró, A.; Martín-Núñez, J.; Valenza, M.C. Differences of Disabling Symptoms between Previously Hospitalized or Non-Hospitalized Currently Working Long-COVID Survivors One Year after Infection: A Descriptive Study. Healthcare 2023, 11, 2306. [https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11162306]
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FPU (“Formación Profesorado Universitario”) grant (FPU:19/02609) of the Spanish Ministry of Education; FPU (“Formación Profesorado Universitario”) grant (FPU: 20/01670) from the training of university faculty from the University of Granada; FPU (“Formación Profesorado Universitario”) grant (FPU: 21/00451) from the training of university faculty from the University of Granada; College of Physiotherapists of Andalucia, Proyect Ref: 06195/21D/MARésumé
This study aimed to describe the presence of disabling symptoms in currently working
Long-COVID survivors by comparing the hospitalized and non-hospitalized one year after infection.
Patients with Long-COVID syndrome (LCS) that have been infected by COVID-19 a year ago and
were actually working were included. Participants that had been hospitalized due to COVID-19
were included in the LCS hospitalized group, and participants that had not been hospitalized were
included in the LCS non-hospitalized group. The eligible patients were prompted to complete
the latest self-report version of the COVID-19 Yorkshire Rehabilitation Screening Tool (C19-YRS).
A total of 465 subjects were included in the study. Participants in the LCS hospitalized group
were significantly older, had a significantly higher BMI, and had a significantly higher prevalence
of women compared to the LCS non-hospitalized group. Additionally, participants in the LCS
hospitalized group had obtained significantly worse results in symptom severity, functional disability,
and global health perceived subscales of C19-YRS compared to the participants included in the LCS
non-hospitalized group. We concluded that disabling symptoms are presented in patients with LCS
at working age one year after infection and are higher in LCS hospitalized patients compared to LCS
non-hospitalized patients.