Factors associated with quality of life in long-COVID syndrome, 2025, Artemiadis et al

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Abstract:

Approximately 10% of patients experience persistent symptoms following COVID-19, known as long-COVID syndrome. This cross-sectional study explored factors of quality of life (QoL) in 53 long-COVID patients.

QoL was measured using the World Health Organization-Five Well-Being Index, fatigue with the Fatigue Visual Analogue Scale, and psychological health with the Depression-Anxiety-Stress-21 questionnaire. Six neuropsychological tests assessed information processing speed, verbal memory, visual memory, working memory, attention, language, fluency, recall, and visuospatial function with a composite score calculated by averaging zscores.

Patients (76% female, mean age: 54.1 years) were assessed 8.7 months postinfection. Cognitive impairment, present in 49% of the sample, was not associated with QoL. In multiple linear regression, gender, fatigue, and psychological distress accounted for 42% of QoL variance, with fatigue and distress contributing 7% and 11%, respectively.

Further studies are needed to determine if fatigue and psychological distress are causally related to QoL in long-COVID and could be treatment targets.

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Am I reading this right?
Fatigue 7%, distress 11%. And the other "symptom" being female accounts for the rest of 42 %?
Can someone help this poor foreigner make sense of this?
 
Am I reading this right?
Fatigue 7%, distress 11%. And the other "symptom" being female accounts for the rest of 42 %?
Can someone help this poor foreigner make sense of this?
Yeah you’re getting it right, they seem to have found that the “female” variable induced a 24% difference in severity. (Assuming that’s an increase, but unsure by the abstract).
 
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