Health-related quality of life of hospitalized COVID-19 survivors: An initial exploration in Nanning city, China

Abstract

Understanding the health-related quality of life (HrQoL) of hospitalized COVID-19 survivors is an emerging global challenge arising from the current pandemic. A qualitative study of the experiences of sixteen hospitalized COVID-19 survivors from Nanning City, China, was conducted using semi-structured telephone interviews in May 2020. These first-hand accounts were critically and empirically analysed to identify emerging health and social issues, and provide potential solutions to improve survivors’ quality of life. This in-depth, qualitative study of HrQoL for hospitalized COVID-19 survivors provides the first empirical evidence and conceptual framework with eight dimensions (physical symptoms, anxiety, trauma, economic loss, placebased identity, self-stigma, health self-interventions, and changing lifestyle) for understanding their physiological, psychological, socio-economic and health behavioral aspects of the daily lives. We argue that local and global governments should provide integrated healthcare, social and digital infrastructure to support this vulnerable group. More comparative and multi-disciplinary studies in this area as needed to generate academic standards of assessing health-related quality of life and produce good practice guidelines for promoting urban resilience in response to public health disasters.

Assessment of Post-COVID-19 Quality of Life Using the Quality of Life Index

“… 38 Many studies have explored the QOL of recovered COVID-19 cases in the general population, hospitalized patients, and patients with chronic illness. 14 , 31 , 33 , 39 Additionally, recent studies have explored the QOL of those who have recovered from COVID-19 at home without medical intervention. 36 Therefore, we aim to assess the QOL for recovered COVID-19 cases in Saudi Arabia, including non-hospitalized, hospitalized, and chronically ill patients, to understand the impact of COVID-19 on their QOL and its subscales and answer the following study objectives: identify the sociodemographic profile of recovered COVID-19 cases; assess the mean score of the overall Quality of Life Index (QLI) and its subscales among recovered COVID-19 cases; and measure significant differences of sample sociodemographic profiles, time of infection, intention for vaccination, and perception of the influence of COVID-19 on general health, history of hospitalization, and history of chronic illness in relation to QOL and its subscales.…”

Strategies to evaluate outcomes in long-COVID-19 and post-COVID survivors

“…Among ICU COVID-19 survivors several patients face impairments regarding their cognitive and mental health or physical function far beyond their hospital discharge [ 32 ].…”

“…Cognitive, physical, and psychological dysfunction reported by COVID19 patients can have profound effects on the HR-QoL [ 32 ].…”

The Strengthening Mechanism of the Relationship between Social Work and Public Health under COVID-19 in China

“…The outbreak of COVID-19 has impacted people’s work and lives in many ways [ 1 ]. People cannot stand aside, as they do in the face of other disasters or diseases—everyone is required to act in order to respond to the outbreak and to prevent its spread.…”