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. 2022 Mar:309:114427.
doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114427. Epub 2022 Jan 30.

Multimorbidity associated with anxiety symptomatology in post-COVID patients

Milena Nogueira Azevedo  1 , Elisângela da Silva Rodrigues  2 , Emília Augusta Franz Vieira Passos  3 , Márcio Andrade Barreto Filho  4 , Ana Paula Andrade Barreto  4 , Marcelo Chalhoub Coelho Lima  5 , Mauricio Lima Barreto  6 , Luis Fernando Silva Castro-de-Araujo  7
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Multimorbidity associated with anxiety symptomatology in post-COVID patients

Milena Nogueira Azevedo et al. Psychiatry Res. 2022 Mar.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic hit individuals with chronic conditions the hardest. It is known that anxiety symptoms are frequent in post-COVID conditions. We want to examine whether multimorbidity is associated with anxiety in post-COVID patients. We reported descriptive statistics from 389 post-COVID patients and perform a linear regression with anxiety symptoms measured using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HAD) scale. For each extra chronic condition, there was a mean increase of 0.11 in the HAD-anxiety score. However, there was a reduction for age and being male. These findings can potentially help policy-makers better organize post-COVID health services and improve patients care.

Keywords: COVID-19; long-covid; quality of life.

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Authors report no conflicts of interest.

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