Post-traumatic stress symptoms in hemodialysis patients with MERS-CoV exposure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Post-traumatic stress symptoms can occur in patients with medical illness. During the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in South Korea in 2015, some dialysis patients in three centers who were incidentally exposed to patients or medical staff with confirmed MERS-CoV infection were isolated to interrupt the spread of the infection. We aimed to investigate post-traumatic stress symptoms and risk factors among these patients.

Materials and methods

In total, 116 hemodialysis (HD) patients in contact with MERS-CoV-confirmed subjects were isolated using three strategies, namely, single room isolation, cohort isolation, and self-quarantine. We used the Impact of Event Scale-Revised-Korean (IES-R-K) to examine post-traumatic stress symptoms at 12 months aft

SUBMITTER: Cho AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7156895 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature