Integrated Homoeopathy and WHO rehabilitation care for long COVID

Not Applicable

Conditions: Health Condition 1: U071- COVID 19 virus identified

Registration Number: CTRI/2023/03/050878

Lead Sponsor: Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Open to Recruitment

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 0

Inclusion Criteria

History of confirmed COVID-19 infection in last 6 months; Minimum 4 weeks after the confirmed COVID-19 report.

Residual or any other clinical complaints reported to be occurring after COVID-19 like fatigue, fever (unknown reason), anxiety, joint pain, breathlessness, headache, or any other non-serious clinical illness not explained by an alternative diagnosis.

Cases who have recovered clinically&/or laboratory confirmed negative.

Patients agreeing to perform WHO self-care rehabilitation program under guidance of the physician.

Patients willing to participate in the study and give written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

Patients having any serious sequelae, presence of systemic complications (persistent organic damage) or specific organ dysfunction due to SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Uncontrolled cases of DM, HT, Asthma, HIV, active TB, Cancer, immune compromised illness like HIV etc.

Patients having severe dyspnoea with Oxygen saturation below 95%; patients requiring ventilation support

Patient reporting having Psychiatric disorders, hepatic and renal dysfunction.

Contra indications to physical exercise or Patient unable to do exercise in the WHO rehabilitation self-management care plan.

Patients not able to give written informed consent

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in symptom severity or clinical recovery of Long COVID complaintsTimepoint: At baseline, monthly follow-up up to 6 months <br/ ><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in functional status assessed using PCFS. <br/ ><br>6-minute walk test (the distance acquired during six minutes walking) quantifying the physical performance, any dyspnoea and endurance. <br/ ><br>Changes in fatigue: Chalder Fatigue Scale (CFQ-11) scale <br/ ><br>Changes in anxiety: Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) <br/ ><br>Changes in health-related quality of life: 12-item Short Form Survey (SF12) <br/ ><br>Change in numeric rating scale (NRS) for all other complaints <br/ ><br>Timepoint: At baseline, and up to 6 months