Post‐COVID-19 syndrome: assessment of short- and long-term post-recovery symptoms in recovered cases in Saudi Arabia
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-04-05T12:47:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-04-05T12:47:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Introduction: Recent studies investigated the endurance of symptoms and occurrence of complications three months after SARS-CoV-2 infection. This study aims to examine the prevalence, variation, and severity of continual symptoms in the post‐COVID-19 using a single-center questionnaire. Methods: The questionnaire was distributed among population in Saudi Arabia who recovered from COVID‐19 between April 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021. Results: A total of 744 participants completed the questionnaire, 318 (42.8%) recovered less than 3 months, 75 (10.1%) recovered 3–6 months, while 351 (47.2%) recovered more than 6 months. About half of the participants 353 (47.5%) had incessant symptoms and of those patients, more than half had two or more symptoms. Common symptoms included fatigue 189 (25.4%), headache 118 (15.9%), and myalgia 63 (8.5%). Of the participants, 189 (21.4%) experienced continual symptoms including anxiety in 98 (13.2%) and depression in 70 (9.5%). Conclusion: The current study showed a high proportion of individuals with long-COVID-19 symptoms. Thus, proper assessment of the individuals in the post-recovery period can guide the patients to the relevant clinics for rehabilitation. Moreover, there is a great importance to decrease COVID-19 infection, populations should be targeted to boost vaccine efficiency. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 3008126 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-022-01788-w | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://146.190.124.33/handle/123456789/6064 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
| dc.publisher | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | es_ES |
| dc.source | Mastozoología Neotropical; Vol. 29 Núm. 1 | |
| dc.title | Post‐COVID-19 syndrome: assessment of short- and long-term post-recovery symptoms in recovered cases in Saudi Arabia | es_ES |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
| dc.type.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |