Mental health symptoms one year after acute COVID-19 infection: Prevalence and risk factors.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Emerging evidence suggests that mental health symptoms in COVID-19 survivors are higher than expected, possibly indicating that such symptoms are more likely to develop post-infection than just persist as a residual component of the acute phase. It is thus imperative to investigate the potential development of a post-COVID mental health syndrome in the longer-term and identify its risk factors.

Material and methods

A prospective study investigated mental health symptoms associated with COVID-19 and its determinants over a 12-month period following the disease onset in all consecutive adult inpatients and outpatients with COVID-19 attending a tertiary referral hospital from March to May 2020.

Results

A total of 479 patients (female, 52.6%) were followed-up

SUBMITTER: Colizzi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9212931 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature