The Symptom and Factors Effect on Severity of Long Covid
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to study the symptoms of covid-19 after infection with COVID-19 and factors related to the severity of those symptoms. The purposive sample comprised 364 patients who visited the outpatient and inpatient department of Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital from July 2021 to April 2022. Data were collected using telephone interviews about the long covid symptoms. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, chi-square, and binary logistic regression analysis. The results revealed that 29.9% of the patients had long covid symptoms. The most common covid symptoms were the respiratory system (81.7%), general symptoms of the body (27.9%), and nervous system (22%), respectively. The risk factors related to the severity of long COVID symptoms was “history of covid pneumonia”. As well, the protective factors related to long-term COVID symptoms were those who received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine and were male gender.
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