Highlights • Few studies have described post-covid conditions in a population, mainly de low/middle-income country. • Multimorbidity was significantly associated with anxiety symptomatology. • Being male and aging reduced the anxiety and depression score. The COVID-19 pandemic hit individuals with chronic conditions the hardest. It is known that anxiety symptoms are frequent in post-COVID conditions. We want to examine whether multimorbidity is associated with anxiety in post-COVID patients. We reported descriptive statistics from 389 post-COVID patients and perform a linear regression with anxiety symptoms measured using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HAD) scale. For each extra chronic condition, there was a mean increase of 0.11 in the HAD-anxiety score. However, there was a reduction for age and being male. These findings can potentially help policy-makers better organize post-COVID health services and improve patients care.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, Quality of life, long-COVID, 【초록키워드】 Anxiety, Depression, COVID-19 pandemic, male, Patient, Linear regression, age, chronic condition, Care, patients, Multimorbidity, reduction, Health Service, individual, help, being, country, anxiety symptom, IMPROVE, described, significantly, reported, reduced, condition, conditions, 【제목키워드】 Anxiety, Patient,