{"id":13228,"date":"2025-01-13T12:50:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T12:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=13228"},"modified":"2025-01-13T12:50:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T12:50:54","slug":"mood-disorders-after-covid-19-infection-a-single-center-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=13228","title":{"rendered":"Mood disorders after COVID-19 infection: a single-center experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Fatih Uzer1*, Aykut Cilli1, Sukriye Oner1, Mestan Emek2, Ata Nevzat Yalc\u0131n3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Department of Respiratory Medicine, Akdeniz University School of Medicine, Antalya, Turkey<\/li><li>Department of Public Health, Akdeniz University School of Medicine, Antalya, Turkey<\/li><li>Department of Infectious Disease, Akdeniz University School of Medicine, Antalya, Turkey<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>*Corresponding Author<\/strong>: Fatih \u00dczer; <strong>Email<\/strong>: uzerfatih@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<br>Objectives<\/strong><br>The present study aimed to examine mood disorders in patients discharged from the hospital due to Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19).<br><strong>Methods<\/strong><br>The study included patients who were admitted to Akdeniz University with the diagnosis of COVID-19. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist &#8211; Civilian Version (PCL-5), and Beck Anxiety and Depression Inventories were administered to the patients at least 30 days after discharge.<br><strong>Results<\/strong><br>A total of 215 patients were included. The median age was 56 years, and 60.9%(131) were male. There was no statistically significant difference in mood disorders scale scores between male and female. However, there was a weak negative correlation between age and PCL-5 scores (rho: -0.157, p: 0.021). The depression scores (p &lt; 0.001), anxiety scores (p &lt; 0.001) and PCL-5 (p = 0.001) scores were statistically significantly higher in patients with respiratory symptoms at the time of enrollment (after a mean duration of 87.9 days following discharge). Married individuals had statistically significantly lower anxiety, depression, and PCL-5 scores. Beck anxiety scores were statistically significantly higher in patients receiving systemic steroid.<br><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><br>A substantial portion of patients with COVID-19 suffer from mood disorders after hospital discharge. Those patients with residual symptoms who live alone and receive corticosteroid represent a vulnerable population.<br><strong>Key words:<\/strong> Coronavirus Disease-19, Anxiety, Depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Survivors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Mood-disorders-1.pdf\">DOWNLOAD PDF<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatih Uzer1*, Aykut Cilli1, Sukriye Oner1, Mestan Emek2, Ata Nevzat Yalc\u0131n3 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Akdeniz University School of Medicine, Antalya, Turkey Department of Public Health, Akdeniz University School of Medicine, Antalya, Turkey Department of Infectious Disease, Akdeniz University School of Medicine, Antalya, Turkey *Corresponding Author: Fatih \u00dczer; Email: uzerfatih@gmail.com AbstractObjectivesThe present study aimed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131],"tags":[66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13237,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions\/13237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}