Publication date: May 29, 2025
The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and the characterization of post-COVID pain in an Italian cohort of previously hospitalized COVID-19 survivors. Furthermore, the study investigated risk factors for the presence of post-COVID pain at one year after the hospitalization. Subjects who agreed to participate received a telephonic interview, and if meeting the inclusion criteria, they were scheduled for a clinical assessment for post-COVID pain characteristics. They also fulfilled several questionnaires: the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI), pain detect, Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia, and Pain Catastrophizing Scale. A sample of 246 subjects was included (36. 6% women, age: 60. 7+/- 14. 5 years). Post-COVID pain prevalence was 26. 2% (65 subjects), with musculoskeletal pain being the most common type (40 subjects, 16. 2%). The multivariate analysis revealed that the number of post-COVID symptoms (WL=0. 82, P
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| Hospitalization | Clinical |
| Italian | Covid |
| Kinesiophobia | Cross |
| Tampa | Factors |
| Women | Hospitalized |
| Italian | |
| Pain | |
| Persistent | |
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Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 |
| disease | MESH | Anxiety |
| disease | MESH | Depression |
| disease | MESH | Sleep Quality |
| disease | MESH | Central Sensitization |
| disease | MESH | Kinesiophobia |
| disease | MESH | musculoskeletal pain |