ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Rehabil. Sci.
Sec. Interventions for Rehabilitation
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fresc.2025.1572351
Rehabilitation Needs and Functional Outcomes in Long COVID Patients: Insights from Bangladesh
Provisionally accepted
- 1Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- 2Jashore University of Science and Technology, Jashore, Bangladesh
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Background: Long COVID presents a persistent challenge, affecting individuals' functional capacity and quality of life. This study evaluates rehabilitation needs in Bangladesh using the COVID-19 Yorkshire Rehabilitation Scale (C19-YRS), aiming to inform targeted interventions.We carried out a quantitative cross-sectional study. The eight administrative divisions provided the pool of participants for selecting the 409 people comprised by the stratified sampling. We collected data using a semi-structured questionnaire that included sociodemographics, a symptoms checklist, and the C-YRS. Results: The most common post-COVID symptoms among the participants were fatigue (34.3%), muscle pain (20%), and dyspnea (12.2%).The comparison between pre-and post-infection symptoms revealed a notable increase in symptom severity and functional impairments. The study also found a significant relationship between symptom severity and living area (p< 0.5). The study found that the severity of symptoms was mild (30.5% (n = 90), moderate 55.3% (n = 186), and severe 14.2% (n = 94). We also looked for correlations between symptom severity, functional impairment, and health. It showed a significant positive correlation between symptom scores and functional difficulty scores (0.889, p<0.001), while there was a significant negative correlation between symptom scores and overall health (-0.658, p<0.001).Severity phenotypes can aid in the stratification of people with PCS for targeted therapies and rehabilitation care planning.
Keywords: C19-YRS, Long Covid, phenotypes, Post-COVID-19 Condition, SARS CoV-2
Received: 10 Feb 2025; Accepted: 24 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Waliul Islam, Rahman, Hossain and Hossain. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: MD. Waliul Islam, Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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