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. 2022 Oct:316:114757.
doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114757. Epub 2022 Jul 31.

Psychiatric symptoms subsequent to COVID-19 and their association with clinical features: A retrospective investigation

Elena Fiabane  1 , Debora Pain  2 , Edoardo Nicolò Aiello  3 , Alice Radici  4 , Marina Rita Manera  5 , Federica Grossi  6 , Marcella Ottonello  7 , Caterina Pistarini  8
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Psychiatric symptoms subsequent to COVID-19 and their association with clinical features: A retrospective investigation

Elena Fiabane et al. Psychiatry Res. 2022 Oct.

Abstract

This study explores the association between psychiatric symptoms following COVID-19 and demographic, disease-related and premorbid clinical confounders. Global cognition, depression, anxiety and PTSD features were assessed in 152 post-COVID-19 patients, subdivided into being at risk for brain disorders or not. In both groups, clinically meaningful depression, anxiety and PTSD symptoms were mildly-to-moderately frequent (4-45%). No demographic or clinical variables predicted psychiatric measures (except for lower age predicting higher anxiety levels). Depression, anxiety and PTSD measures were associated among each other. Hence, depression-, anxiety- and PTSD-spectrum disturbances in COVID-19 survivors are likely to be unassociated with disease-related and premorbid features.

Keywords: COVID-19; Psychiatry; Psychometrics.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The Authors declare no known conflicts of interest.

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