serious COVID-19 Illness associated with increased risk of long-term adverse mental health outcomesAccording to a study published in, The Lancet Public Health Magazine.
researchers found that Hospitalized patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection Those who had never been infected were more likely to experience depressive symptoms for 16 months after diagnosis.
Patients who were bedridden for seven days or more had a higher rate of depression and anxiety, compared to being diagnosed with COVID-19 but never going to bed, he said.
The study found that symptoms of depression and Worry Most decreased within two months for non-hospitalized patients with COVID-19.
However, patients who were bedridden for seven days or more had an increased risk of depression and anxiety over the 16-month study period.
Researchers looked at the symptom-prevalence of depression, anxiety, COVID-19-related distress, and poor sleep quality In people with and without a diagnosis of COVID-19 from 0-16 months. The analysis drew on data from seven groups from Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the UK.
Of the 247,249 people involved, 9,979 (4 per cent) were diagnosed with COVID-19 between February 2020 and August 2021.
Overall, participants diagnosed with COVID-19 had a high prevalence of depression and poorer sleep quality than individuals who had never been diagnosed.
“Our research is the first to detect mental health symptoms following a severe COVID-19 illness in the general population up to 16 months after diagnosis,” said study author Unnur Anna Valdimarsdottir, a professor at the University of Iceland.
“This suggests that mental health effects are not the same for all COVID-19 patients and that time spent in bed is an important factor in determining the severity of effects on mental health,” said Valdimarsdottir.
The researchers noted that early recovery of physical COVID-19 symptoms may explain why mental health symptoms decline at a similar rate to those with mild infections.
However, patients with severe COVID-19 often experience Swelling Which has previously been linked to chronic mental health effects, particularly depression, he said.
“The higher incidence of depression and anxiety in patients with COVID-19 who have been in bed for seven days or more may be due to a combination of anxiety long term health effects as well as the firmness of the physical long covid Symptoms go beyond disease,” said study co-author Ingibjorg Magnusdottir from the University of Iceland.
“Equally, inflammatory responses in patients with severe diagnoses may contribute to more persistent mental health symptoms,” Magnusdottir said.
In contrast, the researchers said, the fact is that individuals with a mild COVID-19 infection May return to normal life early and experience only a benign infection that contributes to a lower risk of negative mental health effects.
The authors acknowledged several limitations in the study.
First, individuals diagnosed with COVID-19 were slightly more likely to have a previous diagnosis of mental disorders than individuals without the disease diagnosis, the researchers said.
However, the absolute difference in history of mental disorders in no group ever exceeded 4 percent and did not affect the interpretation of the findings, he said.
Second, the study shows self-reported data on COVID-19 diagnosis and mental health effects — the coexistence of two or more conditions — are somewhat interrelated, the researchers said.
Third, most of the comparison group responded between April and June 2020, and responses from COVID-19 patients accumulated between April 2020 and August 2021, they said.
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