Multimorbidity associated with anxiety symptomatology in post-COVID patients

•Few studies have described post-covid conditions in a population, mainly de low/middle-income country.•Multimorbidity was significantly associated with anxiety symptomatology.•Being male and aging reduced the anxiety and depression score. The COVID-19 pandemic hit individuals with chronic condition...

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Published in:Psychiatry research 2022-03, Vol.309, p.114427-114427, Article 114427
Main Authors: Azevedo, Milena Nogueira, Rodrigues, Elisângela da Silva, Passos, Emília Augusta Franz Vieira, Filho, Márcio Andrade Barreto, Barreto, Ana Paula Andrade, Lima, Marcelo Chalhoub Coelho, Barreto, Mauricio Lima, Castro-de-Araujo, Luis Fernando Silva
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Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety - diagnosis
Anxiety - epidemiology
COVID-19
Depression - diagnosis
Humans
long-covid
Male
Multimorbidity
Pandemics
quality of life
SARS-CoV-2
Short Communication
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Summary:•Few studies have described post-covid conditions in a population, mainly de low/middle-income country.•Multimorbidity was significantly associated with anxiety symptomatology.•Being male and aging reduced the anxiety and depression score. 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.
ISSN:0165-1781
1872-7123
DOI:10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114427