COVID-19 may produce long-term health consequences to humans, with more than 70 percent of cured patients still displaying at least one symptom after onset of the illness, according to a latest study. COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals are mainly troubled withfatigue, muscle weakness, ...
COVID-19 and related fears add further strains on immigrant hotel and foodservice workers, potentially exerting a significant toll on their mental and physical health and safety. 3. Stress, allostatic load, and syndemic risk of immigrant hospitality workers Because immigrant workers are overrepresented...
Long lockdowns, food shortages, and the inability to receive basic primary healthcare have aggravated the effects of pandemics. However, most studies have focused on the health problems of the infected people or the measures employed to keep the disease under control. This cross-sectional study f...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had deleterious effects on the mental health of the general population across the globe including increased anxiety (Huang & Zhao,2020), post-traumatic stress symptoms and an acute stress reaction (Liu et al.,2020), as well as increased suicidal ideation and attempts ...
Long lockdowns, food shortages, and the inability to receive basic primary healthcare have aggravated the effects of pandemics. However, most studies have focused on the health problems of the infected people or the measures employed to keep the disease under control. This cross-sectional study ...
finding that minors presented more mental health and quality of life problems after the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in Germany the incidence and mortality rates were low compared to countries such as Spain, Italy or China, and their lockdown measures were less severe than in these countries28(...
The rapid spread of the disease created challenges for healthcare systems and forced healthcare workers to grapple with clinical and nonclinical stressors, including shortages of personal protective equipment, mortality and morbidity associated with...
The effects of COVID-19 on the heart, both in the long and short term, have been a topic of interest for scientists and health experts since the outbreak of the coronavirus. Early research found a large portion of deaths caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID...
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has threatened global mental health, both indirectly via disruptive societal changes and directly via neuropsychiatric sequelae after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Despite a small increase in self-reported mental health problems, this has (so far) not translat...
The outset of the COVID-19 pandemic was characterized by prolonged periods of chronic stress and social isolation. While studies have investigated the changes to well-being (WB) during this period, the impact of the social environment on long-term physic