A large new study finds that mental health problems can be long-lasting, especially among patients who were bedridden for seven days or more.
Those whose acute illness kept them bedridden for at least seven days — in the hospital or at home — were significantly more likely to experience anxiety and/or depression, said study author Unner Anna Valdimarsdóttir, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Iceland.
The study largely mirrors what physicians treating long Covid patients in the U.S. are seeing. That is, many patients who had severe cases of Covid went on to develop feelings of depression. Dr. Marc Sala, a pulmonologist and critical care specialist at Northwestern Medicine’s Comprehensive Covid-19 Center in Chicago, said hisreport symptoms of brain fog and difficulty focusing more so than depression or anxiety, although he acknowledged that perhaps he and other long Covid physicians should be asking more about such mental health symptoms.
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