Observational studyFrontiers in public health2022
Health-related quality of life in persons post-COVID-19 infection in comparison to normative controls and chronic pain patients.
Observational study in Frontiers in public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04912778 (Profiling of Post Covid-19 Infection Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Profiling of Post Covid-19 Infection Patients: an Online Survey
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Health-related quality of life in COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of EQ-5D studies.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2025Pooled it
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- Impact of post-exertional malaise frequency and fatigue in Long COVID patients on health-related quality of life.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2026Article
- Estimating Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Infection on Health-Related Quality of Life Among Persons Aged 8 Years and Older, August 2020-July 2022.Journal of health economics and outcomes research · 2026Article
- Post-COVID-19 health-related quality of life in India: A systematic review and meta-analytic assessment of recovery outcomes.World journal of virology · 2025Article
- Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life and Biomarkers in Long COVID: A 12-Month Longitudinal Feasibility Cohort.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- One-year trajectories of physical and mental health-related quality of life, fatigue and dyspnoea in COVID-19 survivors.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- 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
- Comprehensive Health Strategies for the Post-pandemic Era: Integrating Physical Health, Psychological Resilience, Lifestyle Choices, and Occupational Well-being.Korean journal of family medicine · 2024Article
- Resilience and quality of life in patients who underwent mechanical ventilation due to COVID-19, one year after discharge: a cross-sectional study.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2024Article
- Review
- Impact of long COVID on health-related quality-of-life: an OpenSAFELY population cohort study using patient-reported outcome measures (OpenPROMPT).The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2024Article
- Effects of Aerobic Exercise Therapy through Nordic Walking Program in Lactate Concentrations, Fatigue and Quality-of-Life in Patients with Long-COVID Syndrome: A Non-Randomized Parallel Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Cognitive and emotional predictors of quality of life and functioning after COVID-19.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2024Article
- A longitudinal prospective cohort study of health-related quality of life assessment in outpatient adults with post-COVID-19 conditions.Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada · 2024Article
- Effect of long COVID-19 syndrome on health-related quality of life: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Chronic Lung Injury after COVID-19 Pneumonia: Clinical, Radiologic, and Histopathologic Perspectives.Radiology · 2024Review
- Long COVID or Post-COVID-19 Condition: Past, Present and Future Research Directions.Microorganisms · 2023Review
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- Impact of COVID-19 Infection on Health-Related Quality of Life, Work Productivity and Activity Impairment by Symptom-Based Long COVID Status and Age in the US.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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9 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic exerted a tremendous pressure on the healthcare system, people's social life, mental health and financial status with profound implications for the general population. The exact impact of the pandemic on the overall physical, mental and social wellbeing of COVID-19 infection survivors on the long term has not yet been explored in a thorough way. Based on the reporting of persistent pain, fatigue and dyspnea symptoms by these survivors, it is our hypothesis that their quality of life will be extremely impacted, as is observed in patients with chronic pain. Therefore, the first aim of this study was to perform an in-depth evaluation of the quality of life of post-COVID-19 infected persons. The second aim was to compare the quality of life of these persons with a normative population and with patients with chronic pain. Health-related quality of life, as a measure for a person's overall physical, mental, and social wellbeing, was measured with the 3-level EQ5D in 547 post-COVID-19 infected persons. These data were compared to reference data from normal population records for Belgium and to data from patients with chronic pain after spinal surgery with two-way analyses of variance. In total, 89.58% of the post-COVID-19 infected persons reported pain/discomfort and 82.45% indicated limitations when performing usual activities, when evaluated 287 days (SD: 150) after the infection. Self-care was preserved in most post-COVID-19 persons, whereby only 13.16% indicated problems. The mean EQ5D-3L index score was 0.57 (SD: 0.23) and EQ5D VAS mean score was 56.6 (SD: 18.2). The mean index score for the normative population was significantly higher than for COVID-19 infected persons [mean difference of 0.31 (95% from 0.29 to 0.33), Clinical trial registration: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/, identifier: NCT04912778.
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