Long-term covid refers to signs and symptoms that persist or develop after an acute infection. These may include changes in your mental health, and studies show that mental health issues may be more common in those who test positive for Covid.
The chances of having long-term symptoms, according to does not appear to be related to how sick you were when you first got COVID-19.
New study notes that mental problems have been reported after being infected with SARS-CoV-2 health.
The coronavirus pandemic will cause long-term physical and mental health problems
The researchers assessed anxiety and depression symptoms using two validated questionnaires in 413,148 people between February and April 2021, including 26,998 people who tested positive.
They adjusted for physical and mental comorbidities to pandemics, body mass index, age and gender. Overall, 26.4% of participants met screening criteria for general anxiety and depression.
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“Anxiety and depression were more were common in previously positive people at 30.4% compared with negative people at 26.1% This association was small compared to the impact of unhealthy BMI and the presence of other comorbidities and did not appear in younger participants under 40 years of age. The relationship between Covid infection and anxiety and depression was stronger in people with a recent, less than 30 days, compared with a more distant, more than 120 days,” psychiatrist Mikhail Kashtanov commented on the study specifically for Medikforum.
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