Effects of multimodal inpatient complex therapy in former COVID-19 patients with post-Covid syndrome - a retrospective study
- Conditions
- post-Covid syndrome
- Registration Number
- DRKS00033018
- Lead Sponsor
- Paracelsus-Krankenhaus Unterlengenhardt,
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 49
1. Inpatient admission to the Paracelsus Hospital in Unterlengenhardt for the treatment of post-Covid syndrome
2. Diagnosis of post-Covid syndrome
3. Verbal informed consent to complete the questionnaires
Serious comorbidities that produce symptoms similar to post-Covid syndrome and therefore make it difficult to monitor treatment outcome, in particular:
- Advanced oncological diseases with cancer-related fatigue
- Advanced respiratory diseases with dyspnoea
- Advanced cardiovascular diseases with dyspnoea and/or fatigue
- Advanced neurological diseases with cognitive dysfunction and/or fatigue
- Symptomatic endocrine diseases, e.g. hypothyroidism, with fatigue
Insufficient German language skills to complete the questionnaires
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in the sum score of the FACIT fatigue scale (FACIT-F, Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Fatigue) between the values on admission to hospital and four weeks after discharge (follow-up)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - Change in the Fatigue Impact Scale sum score (FIS) between the values on admission to hospital and four weeks after discharge (follow-up)<br>- Change in the Multidimensional Dyspnoea Profile sum score (MDP) between the values on admission to hospital and four weeks after discharge (follow-up)<br>- Other symptoms such as insomnia, depression, pain, loss of appetite and post-exertional malaise (PEM), recorded using a self-developed questionnaire (Questionnaire on Covid-associated symptom burden with 12 items, score for each symptom complex from 0 = no symptoms to 4 = very severe symptom burden)