Factors associated with quality of life in long-COVID syndrome.

IF 1.5 4区医学 Q3 REHABILITATION

International Journal of Rehabilitation Research Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-09 DOI:10.1097/MRR.0000000000000654

Artemios Artemiadis, Andreas G Tofarides, Andreas Liampas, Christiana Ioannou, Katerina Christodoulou, Rafaela Louka, George Vavougios, Panagiotis Zis, Panagiotis Bargiotas, Georgios Hadjigeorgiou

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Abstract

Approximately 10% of patients experience persistent symptoms following COVID-19, known as long-COVID syndrome. This cross-sectional study explored factors of quality of life (QoL) in 53 long-COVID patients. QoL was measured using the World Health Organization-Five Well-Being Index, fatigue with the Fatigue Visual Analogue Scale, and psychological health with the Depression-Anxiety-Stress-21 questionnaire. Six neuropsychological tests assessed information processing speed, verbal memory, visual memory, working memory, attention, language, fluency, recall, and visuospatial function with a composite score calculated by averaging z scores. Patients (76% female, mean age: 54.1 years) were assessed 8.7 months postinfection. Cognitive impairment, present in 49% of the sample, was not associated with QoL. In multiple linear regression, gender, fatigue, and psychological distress accounted for 42% of QoL variance, with fatigue and distress contributing 7% and 11%, respectively. Further studies are needed to determine if fatigue and psychological distress are causally related to QoL in long-COVID and could be treatment targets.

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与长冠状病毒综合征生活质量相关的因素。

大约10%的患者在COVID-19后会出现持续症状，称为长covid综合征。本横断面研究探讨了53例长期covid患者生活质量（QoL）的影响因素。生活质量采用世界卫生组织五幸福指数，疲劳采用疲劳视觉模拟量表，心理健康采用抑郁-焦虑-压力-21问卷。六项神经心理学测试评估了信息处理速度、言语记忆、视觉记忆、工作记忆、注意力、语言、流畅性、回忆和视觉空间功能，并通过平均z分计算出综合得分。患者（76%为女性，平均年龄：54.1岁）在感染后8.7个月进行评估。49%的样本存在认知障碍，与生活质量无关。在多元线性回归中，性别、疲劳和心理困扰占生活质量方差的42%，其中疲劳和心理困扰分别占7%和11%。需要进一步的研究来确定疲劳和心理困扰是否与长期covid的生活质量有因果关系，并可能成为治疗目标。

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International Journal of Rehabilitation Research REHABILITATION-

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3.10

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6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： International Journal of Rehabilitation Research is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary forum for the publication of research into functioning, disability and contextual factors experienced by persons of all ages in both developed and developing societies. The wealth of information offered makes the journal a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners, and administrators in such fields as rehabilitation medicine, outcome measurement nursing, social and vocational rehabilitation/case management, return to work, special education, social policy, social work and social welfare, sociology, psychology, psychiatry assistive technology and environmental factors/disability. Areas of interest include functioning and disablement throughout the life cycle; rehabilitation programmes for persons with physical, sensory, mental and developmental disabilities; measurement of functioning and disability; special education and vocational rehabilitation; equipment access and transportation; information technology; independent living; consumer, legal, economic and sociopolitical aspects of functioning, disability and contextual factors.