长期COVID患者就业工作情况的变化:在日本门诊诊所的回顾性研究
Yui Matsuda1, Yasue Sakurada1, Yuki Otsuka1
1Department of General Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, 2-5-1 Shikata-Cho, Kita-Ku, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.
Journal of clinical medicine
|July 13, 2024
概括
长期的COVID严重影响日本患者的就业,导致工作变化,减少工作时间和提前退休. 这些工作中断会对患者产生负面影响.
科学领域:
- 职业健康 职业健康 职业健康
- 传染性疾病 传染性疾病
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 长期COVID是SARS-CoV-2感染的后急性后续,呈现出广泛的持续性症状.
- 长期COVID的经济和社会影响,特别是就业,需要进行彻底的调查.
- 了解对工作环境的影响对于制定有针对性的支持策略至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查长期COVID对日本患者就业状况和工作条件的影响.
- 分析长期COVID症状,生活质量和工作环境的变化之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 从545名在职长期COVID患者 (18-65岁) 的医疗记录进行了回顾性分析,这些患者在专门的诊所接受治疗.
- 评估工作状态,身体健康,生活质量 (QOL) 和心理健康的变化.
- 从2021年2月到2023年12月收集的数据.
主要成果:
- 超过一半 (54.1%) 的长期COVID患者在工作中经历了工作状态的变化,包括休假 (40.4%),退休 (9.7%) 和减少工作时间 (4%).
- 大多数受影响的患者 (93.2%) 患有轻度急性COVID-19,大多数患者在Omicron变种阶段感染.
- 常见的症状包括疲劳,失眠,头痛和呼吸障碍,导致疲劳和QOL分数恶化,收入减少63.7%.
结论:
- 长期的COVID严重扰乱了就业人员的工作生活,对他们的生活质量产生了不利影响.
- 这些发现强调了对面临就业挑战的长期COVID患者的职业支持和医疗保健干预措施的需要.
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