Persistent symptoms and conditions among children and adolescents hospitalised with COVID-19 illness: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

There is limited in-depth research exploring persistent symptoms and conditions among children and adolescents who contracted COVID-19 illness that required hospitalisation. The main objective of this study was to conduct qualitative interviews among families who had a child hospitalised with COVID-19 illness to elucidate their child's physical, mental and social health outcomes months after initial acute infection.

Design, setting and participants

A qualitative study that composed of in-depth interviews among families with a child hospitalised with COVID-19 illness in one large urban US paediatric healthcare system. Parents (N=25) were recruited from an ongoing quantitative study to estimate the prevalence of long COVID in children hospitalised with COVID-19 illn

SUBMITTER: Messiah SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10514629 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature