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Mental Health in COVID-2019 Survivors from a General Hospital in Peru: Sociodemographic, Clinical, and Inflammatory Variable Associations.
Huarcaya-Victoria, Jeff; Barreto, Jessica; Aire, Lucia; Podestá, Angela; Caqui, Mónica; Guija-Igreda, Rosa; Castillo, Claudia; Alarcon-Ruiz, Christoper A.
Afiliação
  • Huarcaya-Victoria J; Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Unidad de Investigación para la Generación y Síntesis de Evidencias en Salud , Lima, Peru.
  • Barreto J; Departamento de Psiquiatría, Unidad de Psiquiatría de Enlace, EsSalud, Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Av. Grau 800, Lima, Peru.
  • Aire L; Departamento de Psiquiatría, Unidad de Psiquiatría de Enlace, EsSalud, Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Av. Grau 800, Lima, Peru.
  • Podestá A; Facultad de Medicina de San Fernando , Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos , Lima, Peru.
  • Caqui M; Departamento de Psiquiatría, Unidad de Psiquiatría de Enlace, EsSalud, Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Av. Grau 800, Lima, Peru.
  • Guija-Igreda R; Departamento de Psiquiatría, Unidad de Psiquiatría de Enlace, EsSalud, Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Av. Grau 800, Lima, Peru.
  • Castillo C; Departamento de Psiquiatría, Unidad de Psiquiatría de Enlace, EsSalud, Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Av. Grau 800, Lima, Peru.
  • Alarcon-Ruiz CA; Departamento de Psiquiatría, Unidad de Psiquiatría de Enlace, EsSalud, Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Av. Grau 800, Lima, Peru.
Int J Ment Health Addict ; 21(2): 1264-1285, 2023.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34602915
The current coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic constitutes a significant public health problem worldwide, as well as mental health problems. This study aimed to evaluate the mental health of COVID-19 survivors, considering their sociodemographic, clinical, and immune variables. A cross-sectional and correlational study was conducted on 318 COVID-19 survivors from one hospital in Peru. Through telephone interviews, evaluation of the presence of depressive symptoms using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, anxiety symptoms through the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, somatic symptoms through Patient Health Questionnaire-15, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms through Impact of Event Scale-Revised was carried out. Poisson regression analyses were performed with their adjusted variances to calculate the prevalence ratio (PR) with their 95% confidence interval. All regression models were adjusted (PRa) for follow-up time. A significant proportion of patients have depressive (30.9%), anxious (31.1%), somatic (35.2%), and PTSD (29.5%) symptoms. The variables associated with a higher frequency of clinically relevant mental symptoms were female sex, self-perception of greater COVID-19 severity, presence of persistent COVID-19 symptoms, loss of a family member due to COVID-19, and prior psychiatric diagnosis or treatment. In addition, the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio was significantly higher in patients with clinically relevant symptoms of depression. COVID-19 survivors showed a high prevalence of negative mental symptoms. Our findings help to identify patients who are vulnerable and require psychiatric care.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Peru Idioma: En Revista: Int J Ment Health Addict Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Peru País de publicação: Estados Unidos

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Peru Idioma: En Revista: Int J Ment Health Addict Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Peru País de publicação: Estados Unidos