Patient symptoms and experience following COVID-19: results from a UK-wide survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the experience of people who continue to be unwell after acute COVID-19, often referred to as 'long COVID', both in terms of their symptoms and their interactions with healthcare.

Design

We conducted a mixed-methods analysis of responses to a survey accessed through a UK online post-COVID-19 support and information hub, between April and December 2020, about people's experiences after having acute COVID-19.

Participants

3290 respondents, 78% female, 92.1% white ethnicity and median age range 45-54 years; 12.7% had been hospitalised. 494(16.5%) completed the survey between 4 and 8 weeks of the onset of their symptoms, 641(21.4%) between 8 and 12 weeks and 1865 (62.1%) >12 weeks after.

Results

The ongoing symptoms most frequently reporte

SUBMITTER: Buttery S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8572361 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature