학술논문
A proposal for further developing fatigue-related post COVID-19 health states for burden of disease studies
Document Type
Academic Journal
Author
Source
Archives of Public Health. November 2, 2023, Vol. 81 Issue 1
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
0778-7367
Abstract
Author(s): Grant M. A. Wyper[sup.1,2], Scott A. McDonald[sup.3], Juanita A. Haagsma[sup.4], Brecht Devleesschauwer[sup.5,6], Periklis Charalampous[sup.4], Rishma Maini[sup.7,8], Pierre Smith[sup.5,9] and Sara M. Pires[sup.10] Background Post COVID-19 condition, more commonly known [...]
Previous efforts to estimate the burden of fatigue-related symptoms due to long COVID have a very high threshold for inclusion of cases, relative to the proposed definition from the World Health Organization. In practice this means that milder cases, that may be occurring very frequently, are not included in estimates of the burden of long COVID which will result in underestimation. A more comprehensive approach to modelling the disease burden from long COVID, in relation to fatigue, can ensure that we do not only focus on what is easiest to measure; which risks losing focus of less severe health states that may be more difficult to measure but are occurring very frequently. Our proposed approach provides a means to better understand the scale of challenge from long COVID, for consideration when preventative and mitigative action is being planned. Keywords: Long COVID, Post COVID-19 condition, Disability-adjusted life year, Years lived with disability, Fatigue, Disability weight, European burden of disease network
Previous efforts to estimate the burden of fatigue-related symptoms due to long COVID have a very high threshold for inclusion of cases, relative to the proposed definition from the World Health Organization. In practice this means that milder cases, that may be occurring very frequently, are not included in estimates of the burden of long COVID which will result in underestimation. A more comprehensive approach to modelling the disease burden from long COVID, in relation to fatigue, can ensure that we do not only focus on what is easiest to measure; which risks losing focus of less severe health states that may be more difficult to measure but are occurring very frequently. Our proposed approach provides a means to better understand the scale of challenge from long COVID, for consideration when preventative and mitigative action is being planned. Keywords: Long COVID, Post COVID-19 condition, Disability-adjusted life year, Years lived with disability, Fatigue, Disability weight, European burden of disease network