Katharina Hüfner, Piotr Tymoszuk, Sabina Sahanic, Anna Luger, Anna Boehm, Alex Pizzini, Christoph Schwabl, Sabine Koppelstätter, Katharina Kurz, Malte Asshoff, Birgit Mosheimer-Feistritzer, Bernhard Pfeifer, Verena Rass, Andrea Schroll, Sarah Iglseder, Alexander Egger, Ewald Wöll, Günter Weiss, Raimund Helbok, Gerlig Widmann, Thomas Sonnweber, Ivan Tancevski, Barbara Sperner-Unterweger, Judith Löffler-Ragg
OBJECTIVE: Subjective illness perception (IP) can differ from physician's clinical assessment results. Herein, we explored patient's IP during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) recovery. METHODS: Participants of the prospective observation CovILD study (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04416100) with persistent somatic symptoms or cardiopulmonary findings one year after COVID-19 were analyzed (n = 74). Explanatory variables included demographic and comorbidity, COVID-19 course and one-year follow-up data of persistent somatic symptoms, physical performance, lung function testing, chest computed tomography and trans-thoracic echocardiography...
March 17, 2023: Journal of Psychosomatic Research