Assessment of post-COVID-19 fatigue among female survivors 2 years after hospital discharge : a nested case-control study

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BACKGROUND: Fatigue is a common symptom of long COVID syndrome. Compared to male survivors, females have a higher incidence of post-COVID fatigue. Therefore, long-term follow-up is necessary to understand which groups of females are more vulnerable to post-COVID fatigue.

METHODS: This is a nested case-control study of female COVID-19 survivors who were discharged from two designated hospitals in Wuhan, China in 2020, and received 2-year follow-up from March 1 to April 6, 2022. All patients completed the Checklist Individual Strength-subscale subjective fatigue (CIS-fatigue), a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) assessment test (CAT), and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS; including the HADS-Anxiety [HADS-A] and the HADS-Depression [HADS-D]). Individuals with CIS-fatigue scores of 27 or higher were classified as cases. The risk factors for fatigue was analysed with multivariable logistic regression analysis.

RESULTS: A total of 899 female COVID-19 survivors were enrolled for analysis, including 47 cases and 852 controls. Compared with controls, cases had higher CAT, HADS-A and HADS-D scores, and showed a higher prevalence of symptoms, including anxiety (cases vs. controls, 44.7% vs. 4.0%, p < 0.001), chest tightness (21.2% vs. 2.3%, p < 0.001), dyspnoea (19.1% vs. 0.8%, p < 0.001) and so on. In multivariable logistic regression analysis, age (OR, 1.03; 95% CI, 1.01-1.06; p = 0.02) and cerebrovascular disease (OR, 11.32; 95% CI, 2.87-43.00; p < 0.001) were risk factors for fatigue. Fatigue had a statistically significant moderate correlation with depression (r = 0.44, p < 0.001), but not with CAT ≥ 10.

CONCLUSION: Female COVID-19 patients who had cerebrovascular disease and older age have higher risk of fatigue. Patients with fatigue have higher CAT scores, and are more likely to have concurrent depression.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

BMC public health - 23(2023), 1 vom: 07. Dez., Seite 2455

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ye, Yidan [VerfasserIn]
Xiong, Chuyue [VerfasserIn]
Dai, Yang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Xinyue [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Lixia [VerfasserIn]
Hou, Chao [VerfasserIn]
Nie, Naifu [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Huan [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Xiangyu [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Anqiang [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Guoqiang [VerfasserIn]
He, Yong [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Ji [VerfasserIn]
Li, Li [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Fatigue
Female
HADS
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
SARS-CoV-2

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Date Completed 16.12.2023

Date Revised 16.01.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12889-023-17382-0

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM365533173