Post-COVID-19 condition and persisting symptoms in English schoolchildren: repeated surveys to March 2022.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Both post-COVID-19 condition (long COVID) and the presence of persisting symptoms that do not meet formal definitions of post-COVID-19-condition may adversely affect quality of life and function. However, their prevalence among children and young people in England is unclear.

Methods

We used data from repeated surveys in a large cohort of English schoolchildren from the COVID-19 Schools Infection Survey (SIS) for the school year 2021/22 to describe the weighted prevalence of post-COVID-19-condition and compare persisting symptoms between individuals with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test and those with neither a positive test history nor suspected infection.

Results

Among 7797 children from 173 schools, 1.8% of primary school pupils (aged 4 to 11 years), 4.5% of s

SUBMITTER: Warren-Gash C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10075149 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature