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The COVID-19 pandemic was a highly stressful event for 75% of the participants and the most powerful predictor of adjustment disorder. 49% reported an increase in adjustment disorder symptoms, which were more common among females and those without a full-time job; 14% of the sample met the criteria for a diagnosis of adjustment disorder.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the mental health of people across the globe. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] The pandemic has caused widespread anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. [ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ] According to the UN health agency WHO, in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, prevalence of common mental health ...
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a type of respiratory failure characterized by rapid onset of widespread inflammation in the lungs. [ 1 ] Symptoms include shortness of breath (dyspnea), rapid breathing (tachypnea), and bluish skin coloration (cyanosis). [ 1 ] For those who survive, a decreased quality of life is common.
COVID-19 patients appear to have a higher risk of being diagnosed with mental health conditions, such as anxiety or depression, according to a new study.
Post-traumatic embitterment disorder (PTED) is defined as a pathological reaction to a negative life event, which those affected experienced as a grave insult, humiliation, betrayal, or injustice. Prevalent emotions of PTED are embitterment, anger, fury, and hatred, especially against the triggering stressor, often accompanied by fantasies of ...
Long COVID or long-haul COVID is a group of health problems persisting or developing after an initial period of COVID-19 infection. Symptoms can last weeks, months or years and are often debilitating. [3] The World Health Organization defines long COVID as starting three months after the initial COVID-19 infection, but other agencies define it ...
Criteria that vary among these three definitions include the ways in which involvement of different organs is defined, the duration of fever, and how exposure to COVID-19 is assessed. [15] The preliminary WHO case definition is for "multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) in children and adolescents temporally related to COVID-19" [2] (box). [24]
The symptoms of COVID-19 are variable depending on the type of variant contracted, ranging from mild symptoms to a potentially fatal illness. [1][2] Common symptoms include coughing, fever, loss of smell (anosmia) and taste (ageusia), with less common ones including headaches, nasal congestion and runny nose, muscle pain, sore throat, diarrhea ...