Psychosocial functioning of patients up to 6 months after hospitalization for COVID-19

The aim of this study was to determine the associations between anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, fatigue, depression, perceived social support of patients hospitalised for SARS-CoV-2 infection not later than up to 6 months after hospitalisation. The study included 97 participants hospitalised for SARS-CoV-2 infection up to 6 months after enrollment. The study was conducted with the method of a diagnostic survey using the questionnaire technique: Modified Fatigue Impact Scale, The Patient Health Questionnaire-9, The Athens Insomnia Scale, The Generalized Anxiety Questionnaire, The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, Self-administered questionnaire. Statistically significant: negative correlation between AIS and PHQ-9 scores (r=-0.195; p < 0.001), positive between AIS scores and MFIS (r = 0.468; p < 0.0001), negative between AIS scores and MSPSS (r=-0.267; p < 0.0081), positive between AIS and GAD-7 scores (r = 0.428; p < 0.001), positive between GAD-7 and MFIS scores (r = 0.384; p < 0.0001), negative between GAD-7 and MSPSS scores (r=-0.301; p < 0.0028), negative correlation, strong between MSPSS and MFIS scores (r=-0.201; p < 0.0484) were detected. The study presented here provides important associations and may help to assess the need for psychosocial support and provides a starting point for a larger study to determine the associations between depression, anxiety, fatigue, insomnia and social support among COVID-19 hospitalised patients.