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. 2021 Oct 22;189:106665. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2021.106665

Table 2.

Quality of life and reported symptoms details of the study population and the recovery clusters based on the 15D dimensions.

Health related Quality of Life Respondents (n = 178) Full recovery n = 84 Partial recovery
Mental n = 68
Partial recovery
Physical n = 17
Bad recovery n = 9 p
15D score 3 months - mean ± SD 0.857 ± 0.133 0.927 ± 0.061 0.800 ± 0.135 0.853 ± 0.114 0.637 ± 0.204 < 0.001
15D score 1 year - mean ± SD 0.880 ± 0.115 0.964 ± 0.033 0.820 ± 0.068 0.866 ± 0.088 0.572 ± 0.112 < 0.001
Mobility - mean ± SD 0.876 ± 0.207 0.963 ± 0.104 0.828 ± 0.191 0.901 ± 0.166 0.375 ± 0.298 < 0.001
Vision - mean ± SD 0.953 ± 0.119 0.992 ± 0.040 0.942 ± 0.108 0.949 ± 0.094 0.681 ± 0.280 < 0.001
Hearing - mean ± SD 0.968 ± 0.098 1.000 ± 0.000 1.000 ± 0.000 0.745 ± 0.135 0.857 ± 0.192 < 0.001
Breathing - mean ± SD 0.746 ± 0.238 0.879 ± 0.154 0.620 ± 0.227 0.753 ± 0.223 0.438 ± 0.238 < 0.001
Sleeping - mean ± SD 0.838 ± 0.238 0.940 ± 0.135 0.716 ± 0.274 0.929 ± 0.142 0.632 ± 0.312 < 0.001
Eating - mean ± SD 0.979 ± 0.102 1.000 ± 0.000 1 .000 ± 0.000 1.000 ± 0.000 0.587 ± 0.221 < 0.001
Speech - mean ± SD 0.980 ± 0.090 0.996 ± 0.032 0.996 ± 0.036 0.948 ± 0.117 0.777 ± 0.276 < 0.001
Excretion - mean ± SD 0.974 ± 0.110 1.000 ± 0.000 1.000 ± 0.000 0.872 ± 0.191 0.720 ± 0.292 < 0.001
Usual activities - mean ± SD 0.845 ± 0.234 0.977 ± 0.078 0.768 ± 0.211 0.831 ± 0.231 0.224 ± 0.085 < 0.001
Mental function - mean ± SD 0.889 ± 0.174 0.962 ± 0.111 0.844 ± 0.185 0.811 ± 0.183 0.903 ± 0.248 < 0.001
Discomfort - mean ± SD 0.853 ± 0.206 0.979 ± 0.077 0.726 ± 0.214 0.859 ± 0.216 0.633 ± 0.202 < 0.001
Depression - mean ± SD 0.853 ± 0.203 0.966 ± 0.091 0.719 ± 0.220 0.901 ± 0.172 0.706 ± 0.203 < 0.001
Distress - mean ± SD 0.815 ± 0.210 0.949 ± 0.128 0.683 ± 0.184 0.825 ± 0.186 0.549 ± 0.201 < 0.001
Vitality - mean ± SD 0.816 ± 0.196 0.931 ± 0.125 0.718 ± 0.160 0.806 ± 0.227 0.499 ± 0.185 < 0.001
Sexual activity - mean ± SD 0.820 ± 0.235 0.966 ± 0.103 0.723 ± 0.215 0.749 ± 0.219 0.317 ± 0.185 < 0.001
Reported symptoms at 1 year
Cough - n (%) 18 (10.1%) 2 (2.4%) 13 (19.1%) 1 (5.9%) 2 (22.2%) 0.004
Arthromialgia - n (%) 62 (34.8%) 15 (17.9%) 33 (48.5%) 7 (41.7%) 7 (77.8%) < 0.001
Palpitations - n (%) 12 (6.7%) 1 (1.2%) 8 (11.2%) 2 (11.8%) 1 (11.1%) 0.050
Dyspnoea (mMRC ≥1) - n (%) 104 (58.4%) 32 (38.1%) 51 (75.0%) 13 (76.5%) 8 (88.9%) < 0.001
Dyspnoea mMRC scale - (IQR) 0 (0–2) 0 (0–0) 1 (0–2) 1 (0–2) 3 (2–4) < 0.001

Abbreviations: mMRC - modified Medical Research Council dyspnoea scale.

Notes: significant p values for differences among the recovery clusters are evidenced in bold.