This study was performed and reported in accordance with Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology guideline for cohort studies (Supplementary File 1). Meanwhile, factors associated with poor health‐related quality of life were also explored. Garrigues et al., ( 2020) have found that there are few differences for HRQoL between ward and ICU COVID‐19 patients after discharge.Ĭonsidering studies reporting physical and psychological conditions of COVID‐19 patients after discharge from hospital are rare, this multicentre study was performed to investigate the physical condition and HRQoL of COVID‐19 patients after discharge. One previous cross‐sectional study has revealed that HRQoL was poor among COVID‐19 patients at the first‐month follow‐up and several risk factors are determined (Chen et al., 2020).
However, only few studies have reported HRQoL of patients after discharge. Physical symptoms are still observed among COVID‐19 patients after discharged from hospital (Carfì et al., 2020), which may also affect their normal life and lead to poor HRQoL. Similar to other diseases, it has been demonstrated in several studies that COVID‐19 can affect HRQoL of patients and general populations (Nguyen et al., 2020 Zhang & Ma, 2020). Health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) has aroused much interest in the social progress and the transformation of medical care and service systems, which refers to the impact of disease and treatment on patients' function and overall life satisfaction (Gill & Feinstein, 1994 Schipper et al., 1996). Therefore, all mentioned above suggests that the physical and mental functions of some discharged patients do not come back to normal and at the risk of deterioration.
Another concern is that considering the impact of coronavirus infection on the daily life and work, a considerable number of COVID‐19 patients may still have psychological problems after discharge from hospital (Yuan et al., 2020).
In addition, due to incomplete recovery of pulmonary injury, present palpitation, shortness of breath or dyspnoea may still occur after physical activity for discharged patients (Zheng et al., 2020). Some clinical symptoms including fever, cough, sore throat and fatigue were also observed among discharged patients with SARS‐COV‐2 reactivation (Ye et al., 2020 Zheng et al., 2020). As reviewed by Zheng and colleagues (Zheng et al., 2020), approximately 3.2% to 9.1% of discharged patients may experience SARS‐COV‐2 reactivation but without specific clinical features to distinguish them. Previous studies have revealed some positive laboratory findings and reactivated clinical features of discharged COVID‐19 patients (Zheng et al., 2020). To date, there are more than twenty million confirmed cases and seven hundred thousand cases died with COVID‐19 infection worldwide according to the reports of World Health Organization (WHO) (World Health Organization, 2020). Currently, COVID‐19 has caused a worldwide pandemic and led a huge impact on the health of human and daily life. The main clinical characteristics of COVID‐19 are fever, cough and shortness of breath (Chen, Zhou, et al., 2020), and a proportion of patients may accompany with new loss of taste or smell (Dawson et al., 2020), diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms (Chen, Zhou, et al., 2020 Kim et al., 2020 Tian et al., 2020). But Trahan lives with heart failure, which puts her at high risk for severe illness caused by the COVID-19 virus.Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is a novel pneumonia infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), a member of the betacoronavirus genus. She's having an especially hard time not leaving her apartment to volunteer and help her community. And, Weinert said, it can lasts for months or even a lifetime.įor Trahan, being on a ventilator is haunting her now since she lives in one of the centers of the coronavirus pandemic. Plus, the sedation medications can have their own long-term mental-health effects, although it's still not clear to doctors and researchers if or how they should adjust doses to help prevent those.Įxperiencing symptoms of PICS is upsetting to patients not only because they're unexpected, but also because unless it reaches the point of a diagnosable mental illness, like depression, anxiety, or post-traumatic stress disorder, there's no clear treatment. You can't talk, feed yourself, or go the bathroom on you're own you don't know day from night and you're surrounded by professionals whose presence reminds you that you could die at any moment. The experience can also be psychologically damaging because "your whole world shrinks down to your bed," he said.
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