ArticleIntensive & critical care nursing2023
Poor long-term recovery after critical COVID-19 during 12 months longitudinal follow-up.
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- Functional Recovery of Adults Following Acute COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Physical therapy · 2025Pooled it
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- Health-Related Quality of Life One Year After Intensive Care Unit Admission for COVID-19: A Retrospective, Cross-Sectional, Longitudinal Observational Study.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Being between life and death-experiences of COVID-19 survivors 12 to 18 months after being treated in intensive care.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2024Article
- Surviving COVID-19: patients' experiences of care and path to recovery.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2024Article
- Objective and subjective cognitive outcomes one year after COVID-19.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2024Article
- Cognitive and mental health trajectories of COVID-19: Role of hospitalisation and long-COVID symptoms.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2024Article
- Six and twelve-month respiratory outcomes in a cohort of severe and critical COVID-19 survivors: A prospective monocentric study in Latin America.SAGE open medicine · 2024Article
- Cognitive impairment in post-acute COVID-19 syndrome: a scoping review.Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria · 2023Article
- Health-related quality of life after surviving intensive care for COVID-19: a prospective multicenter cohort study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Association between long COVID and vaccination: A 12-month follow-up study in a low- to middle-income country.PloS one · 2023Article
- Surviving critical COVID-19: How functionality, physical, mental and cognitive outcomes evolve?PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesThis study aimed to describe the burden of illness and impact on health and working situation among former intensive care patients treated for COVID-19.
methodsA prospective cohort study was performed at one intensive care unit of a university hospital in Sweden during the first wave of COVID-19 in spring 2020. The burden of illness in health status, cognitive, physical, and psychological outcomes, and working situation were assessed at four and 12 months after discharge from intensive care, using nine validated instruments.
resultsForty-six participants treated for COVID-19 participated in both follow-ups and were included in this study. General fatigue was reported by 37 of 46 participants (82%) at both follow-ups (p = 1.000). For overall health status 28 (61%) participants at the first follow-up and 26 (57%) (p = 0.414) at the second reported lower values than the general population. Cognitive impairment was seen in 22 (52%) participants at four months and in 13 (31%) at 12 months (p = 0.029). The proportion of participants on sick-leave decreased between the first and second follow-up (24% vs 13%, p = 0.025), but the proportion of participants working full-time was almost the same at both follow-ups (35% vs 37%, p = 0.317).
conclusionsThe burden of illness of patients treated in intensive care due to COVID-19 included cognitive, physical, and psychological impacts. Cognitive functions were improved after 12 months, but no clear improvements could be distinguished in the physical or psychological outcome. Higher burden of illness was associated with inability to return to work.
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