Factors associated with severe symptoms in patients infected with the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) at Bangchak Hospital in Samut Prakan Province

Abstract

The new Coronavirus 2019 spread rapidly globally, including in Thailand. Furthermore, the virus was finally declared to be a pandemic in March 2020, as the World Health Organization identified this respiratory disease caused by the Coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19. This retrospective study applied the data from the medical records and the electronic database to study the factors related to violence in Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients at Bang Chak Hospital in Samut Prakan Province, Thailand from March 1, 2020 to June 1, 2021, totaling 147 persons. The data analysis included descriptive statistics that were the mean, percentage, and Chi-square test (95% CI; p-value < 0.05). Based on the findings of the results, there were 147 patients with severe symptoms, which could be divided into 58.5% of female patients and 41.5% of male patients; moreover, 100% had never been vaccinated. Most severe-leveled infected patients (54.4%) were over 50 years old. The first three chronic diseases found in the severe-leveled infected patients were hypertension (34.01%), hyperlipidemia (30.61%), and diabetes (22.44%). The first three signs that were mostly found were exhaustion (87.75%), fever (79.59%), and sore throat (61.22%). The top three symptoms were coughing (84.35%), fever (79.59%), and sore throat (63.94%). The mean of the hospital stay was 15.23 days. The analytical results of the factor relationship between patients with pneumonia (severe symptoms) found that age, marital status, chronic disease, and civil servant career/ stat enterprise career were related to the infection of COVID-19 and the violence symptom that had a statistical significance; statistical significance (p-value < 0.05). patients with age 50 -64 years and more than 65 years had severe pneumonia. Marital status had severe pneumonia more than single status. Occupation is the one factor that related severe symptoms. Founded civil servant career/ stat enterprise career had severe pneumonia then self employed career, housekeeper, merchant, student respectively. The outcome from research suggested that we should make the assessment factors associated with severe symptoms in Patients infected with the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) for surveillance and prevent complication.