Exploring the Relationship Between Lifestyle and Post-COVID Psychiatric Symptoms: Findings from a Brazilian Cohort.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how lifestyle factors impact psychiatric well-being is essential for supporting recovery in COVID-19 survivors, yet their influence on long-term outcomes remains underexplored. This cross-sectional study evaluates associations between depression, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), suicidal ideation (SI), and syndromic common mental disorder (CMD) with lifestyle factors in 730 moderate to severe COVID-19 survivors. Lifestyle factors included physical activity, alcohol and substance use and during COVID-19 infection, and dietary intake, with assessments conducted 6 to 11 months post-hospitalization. Multiple logistic regression was employed for each of the five dependent variables. Of the participants, 51.9% were male, with a mean age of

SUBMITTER: Borges SAM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11948251 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature