ArticleLa Medicina del lavoro2022
Long-term COVID symptoms, work ability and fitness to work in healthcare workers hospitalized for Sars-CoV-2 infection.
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- What is the impact of long-term COVID-19 on workers in healthcare settings? A rapid systematic review of current evidence.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- Sex and occupational differences in long COVID prevalence among healthcare workers: a multicentre registry-based study in three Spanish hospitals.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Prolonged return to work and hampered work ability: insights from a scoping review on the impact of long COVID on healthcare workers job performance.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Prevalence and risk factors of adverse work outcomes among manufacturing workers with Long COVID in Malaysia - A nationwide study.PloS one · 2026Article
- Long COVID in Healthcare Workers from a Pediatric Hospital in Romania: A Cross-Sectional Study of Prevalence, Symptom Burden, and the Role of Vaccination and Reinfection.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Determinants of work ability among health and social services workers with work-related COVID-19 infection in Germany.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- The impact of long COVID on UK healthcare workers and their workplace: a qualitative study of healthcare workers with long COVID, their families, colleagues and managers.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- The Impact of Post-COVID-19 Condition on Frontline Healthcare Workers: A Scoping Review.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2025Review
- Course of neuropsychological health in post-COVID patients differs 6 and 12 months after inpatient rehabilitation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Slow-Paced Breathing Intervention in Healthcare Workers Affected by Long COVID: Effects on Systemic and Dysfunctional Breathing Symptoms, Manual Dexterity and HRV.Biomedicines · 2024Article
- Long COVID among healthcare workers: a narrative review of definitions, prevalence, symptoms, risk factors and impacts.British medical bulletin · 2024Review
- The Effectiveness of the Third Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine: When Should It Be Performed?Vaccines · 2024Article
- Piecing together the narrative of #longcovid: an unsupervised deep learning of 1,354,889 X (formerly Twitter) posts from 2020 to 2023.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Psychopathological Burden among Healthcare Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic Compared to the Pre-Pandemic Period.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Observational
- COVID-19 Marked a Change in the Scope of Occupational Medicine from Occupational to Work-Related Diseases and Total Worker Health®.La Medicina del lavoro · 2023Article
- The long-term effects of the Covid-19 infection on cardiac symptoms.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2023Observational
- Post-COVID condition or "long COVID", return-to work, and occupational health research.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2023Article
- Physical Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Population of Italian Healthcare Workers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Observational
- Impact of Rehabilitation on Physical and Neuropsychological Health of Patients Who Acquired COVID-19 in the Workplace.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Observational
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Abstract
backgroundCOVID-19 can affect the persistence of symptoms and work ability (WA), hence the fitness to work of healthcare workers (HCW). We describe the effects of COVID-19 in hospitalized HCWs of a large Hospital in Lombardy and their implications on WA and fitness to work.
methodsFifty-six HCWs of Fatebenefratelli-Sacco Hospital have been hospitalized for COVID-19 since March 2020. Clinical and fitness-to-work data were acquired from Occupational Health Surveillance Program. A structured questionnaire was administered to 53/56 HCWs 18 months after infection to investigate Long-COVID symptoms and WA.
resultsSymptoms most reported at recovery (rhino-pharyngeal swab-NPS-negative) were exertional dyspnea (86.8%), asthenia (86.8%), arthro-myalgia (71.7%), sleep disorders (64.2%), resting dyspnea (62.3%), cough (56.6%). 69.6% underwent evaluation at out-patient clinics experienced in Long-COVID. Ten months after recovery, symptoms related to physical well-being decreased while memory and anxiety/depression were more persistent. At recovery, the WA score decreased from 10 to 8, and then an improvement from 8 to 9 was noted during the survey. At the return-to-work examination, fit-to-work judgements with restrictions increased from 31.4% to 58.7%; then, a slight decrease in the rate of judgements with restrictions was observed at the survey's time.
conclusionPost-COVID-19 symptoms can persist for a long time and could impact WA and fitness-to-work of HCW. Adequate health surveillance protocols should guarantee the health protection of HCW with persistent disorders after COVID-19.
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