内部震和振动症状的表征
Dorothy Massey1,2, Mitsuaki Sawano1,2, Anna D Baker3
1Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
BMJ open
|December 28, 2023
概括
患有长期COVID的患者经历了衰弱的内部震和振动,通常是在感染后. 许多人报告说,由于这些持续的症状,令人丧的医疗互动和重大生命影响.
科学领域:
- 神经学 神经学
- 传染性疾病 传染性疾病
- 患者倡导 患者倡导
背景情况:
- SARS-CoV-2 感染 (长期COVID) 的后急性后续症状可以表现为多样化和持久的症状.
- 一些患者报告说,内部震和振动是长期COVID的重要组成部分.
研究的目的:
- 描述患者体验的内和振动作为长期COVID的突出症状.
- 在长期COVID患者中确定与这些神经症状相关的关键主题和领域.
主要方法:
- 从长期COVID患者的140封电子邮件和450条社交媒体评论进行了定性叙事分析.
- 2021年7月15日至27日期间,通过患者倡导组织幸存者队收集的数据.
- 常量比较方法和NVivo V.12用于主题识别;用R生成字云用于评论分析.
主要成果:
- 确定了患者体验的七个领域,包括症状特征,发病,触发因素和对生活的影响.
- 22个不同的主题出现了,详细介绍了症状的变化,感染后的早期发作和衰弱作用.
- 患者经常报告了与医疗保健系统有关其症状的令人丧的经历.
结论:
- 这项研究强调了长期COVID中内部震动和振动的深刻和削弱性质.
- 患者报告的主题揭示了症状管理和医疗保健相互作用的重大挑战.
- 了解这些经验对于改善长期COVID患者的护理至关重要.
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