Clinical presentation of post-COVID pain and its impact on quality of life in long COVID patients: a cross-sectional household survey of SARS-CoV-2 cases in Bangladesh

Md. Feroz Kabir and Khin Nyein Yin and Mohammad Saffree Jeffree and Fatimah Ahmedy and Muhamad Faizal Zainudin and Ohnmar Htwe and Sharmila Jahan and Md. Zahid Hossain and K. M. Amran Hossain and Tofajjal Hossain and Iqbal Kabir Jahid and Sonjit Kumar Chakrovorty (2024) Clinical presentation of post-COVID pain and its impact on quality of life in long COVID patients: a cross-sectional household survey of SARS-CoV-2 cases in Bangladesh. BMC Infectious Diseases, 24. pp. 1-13. ISSN 1471-2334

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Abstract

Background Pain is one of the prevalent Long COVID Symptoms (LCS). Pain interferes with the quality of life (QoL) and induces disease burden. Purpose The study aimed to elicit the clinical presentation of pain and determine the relationships between QoL and pain in LCS. Methods This household cross-sectional study of 12,925 SARS-CoV-2 cases between July and December 2021 was carried out in eight administrative divisions of Bangladesh. Stratifed random sampling from the cases retrieved from the Ministry of Health was employed. Symptom screening was performed through COVID-19 Yorkshire Rehabilitation Scale, and long COVID was diagnosed according to World Health Organization (WHO) criteria. The analyses were conducted using IBM SPSS (Version 20.00). Results The prevalence of pain in long COVID was between 01 and 3.1% in the studied population. The study also found fve categories of pain symptoms as LCS in Bangladesh: muscle pain 3.1% (95% CI; 2.4–3.8), chest pain 2.4% (95% CI; 1.8–3.1), joint pain 2.8% (95% CI; 2.2–2.3), headache 3.1% (95% CI; 2.4–3.8), and abdominal pain 0.3% (95% CI; 0.01–0.5). People with LCS as pain, multiple LCS, and longer duration of LCS had signifcantly lower quality of life across all domains of the WHOQOL-BREF (P<0.001) compared to asymptomatic cases. Conclusion Three out of ten people with long COVID experience painful symptoms, which can signifcantly reduce their quality of life. Comprehensive rehabilitation can improve the symptoms and reduce the burden of the disease.

Item Type:	Article
Keyword:	Long COVID, Pain, Quality of life, Bangladesh
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) > R5-920 Medicine (General) > R5-130.5 General works R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA1-1270 Public aspects of medicine > RA421-790.95 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive medicine > RA643-645 Disease (Communicable and noninfectious) and public health
Department:	FACULTY > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Depositing User:	SITI AZIZAH BINTI IDRIS -
Date Deposited:	15 Jul 2024 11:56
Last Modified:	15 Jul 2024 11:56
URI:	https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/39165

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