The examination of stress symptoms and posttraumatic growth in the patients diagnosed with Covid-19.
S Özgüç, D Tanrıverdi, M Güner and 1 others
PMID 35729040WHAT IT FOUND
Patients discharged from intensive care for COVID-19 reported moderate stress symptoms, especially avoidance, and also reported growth, especially changed sense of self.
Growth did not mean stress had gone away.
Key findings
01Patients reported moderate stress symptoms, with avoidance highest.
02Growth was highest in change in the self, with total score 45.10 of 105.
03Stress and growth were positively related, and growth explained 10% of stress symptoms.
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What it does not show
It was a single-time self-report survey, so it cannot show that intensive care treatment caused stress or growth. The sample was 175 patients from one hospital, and the authors said this limits statistical power and generalisability. Stress symptoms were measured by patient questionnaire, not by a mental health professional's clinical evaluation. No intervention was tested, so the paper cannot show that any treatment reduces symptoms or increases growth.
Declared interests
This research did not receive a specific grant from public, commercial, or not-for-profit funding agencies. The authors declared no known competing financial interests or personal relationships.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the growth scores as proof that recovery from intensive care improves psychological health. The study measured stress and growth together, found they were positively related, and did not test an intervention.