Post-acute COVID and long-COVID among adults and older adults in the State of Parana, Brazil: protocol for an ambispective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Since 2020, the world has been going through a viral pandemic with a high morbidity and mortality rate along with the potential to evolve from an acute infection to post-acute and long-COVID, which is still in the process of elucidation. Diagnostic and prognostic research is essential to understand the complexity of factors and contexts involving the illness's process. This protocol introduces a study strategy to analyse predictors, sequelae, and repercussions of COVID-19 in adults and older adults with different disease severities in the State of Paraná, Brazil.

Methods and analysis

A mixed-methods sequential explanatory design. The quantitative data will be conducted by an ambispective cohort study, which will explore the manifestations of COVID-19 for 18 mont

SUBMITTER: Salci MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9461084 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature