Volume 26, Issue 129, November 2022

Post-infection chronic fatigue following coronavirus disease-19: cross sectional study

Faheem Mohammed Alanazi¹, Waleed Khalid Alhowikan^2♦, Dalia Ali Aljrary³, Alanoud Abdullah Alqawili⁴, Fahad Mohammed Algharbi⁵, Hala Khamis Alghamdi⁶, Hamad Bandar Alotaibi⁷, Hamoud Shaya Alotaibi⁸, Majed Maseer Almutairi⁹, Rawan Hamdan Aljehani¹⁰, Sarah Abdulhadi Algallaf¹¹, Saud Abdullah Alhasoun¹²

¹Emergency Consultant, Emergency Department, General Hospital King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
²Emergency resident, Emergency department, General Hospital, King Saud medical city Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
³Emergency resident, Emergency department, General Hospital, King Saud medical city Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
⁴General physician, Amaarefa University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ⁵Medical intern, Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia
⁶Medical intern, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia
⁷General physician, Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia
⁸General physician, Taif University, Saudi Arabia
⁹Medical intern, Vision College of Medicine, Vision Colleges, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
¹⁰Medical intern, Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia
¹¹General physician, Imam Abdulrahman Ibn Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
¹²Medical intern, Imam Mohammed Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Emergency resident, Emergency department, General Hospital, King Saud medical city Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Coronavirus disease has a wide range of symptoms, from asymptomatic infection to critical illness, which may even lead to death. Fatigue is the most prevalent symptom in COVID patients during and after the acute phase of the disease. Fatigue in COVID patients still with unknown etiology. This cross-sectional study used data from KSMC hospital records and direct interviews with patients affected by chronic fatigue following confirmed COVID. Data were analyzed using SPSS V24 and multiple regression analysis. Pearson correlation, chi square test were used in the analysis process. Our results found that vaccination status is strongly affecting chalder fatigue scale; also age, comorbidities and COVID severity affect the scale. Comorbidity was found to be high in older participants; also higher comorbidities associated with increased disease severity.

Keywords: Coronavirus disease, chronic fatigue, etiology, COVID patients

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms448e2535

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i129/ms448e2535

Published: 05 November 2022