Post-COVID-19 psychiatric and cognitive morbidity: Preliminary findings from a Brazilian cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The present study aims to investigate the occurrence of psychiatric and cognitive impairments in a cohort of survivors of moderate or severe forms of COVID-19.

Method

425 adults were assessed 6 to 9 months after hospital discharge with a structured psychiatric interview, psychometric tests and a cognitive battery. A large, multidisciplinary, set of clinical data depicting the acute phase of the disease, along with relevant psychosocial variables, were used to predict psychiatric and cognitive outcomes using the 'Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator' (LASSO) method.

Results

Diagnoses of 'depression', 'generalized anxiety disorder' and 'post-traumatic stress disorder' were established respectively in 8%, 15.5% and 13.6% of the sample. After pandemic

SUBMITTER: Damiano RF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8734055 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature