Rebecca Rhead, Jacques Wels, Bettina Moltrecht, Richard John Shaw, Richard Silverwood, Jingmin Zhu, Alun Hughes, Nishi Chaturvedi, Evangelia Demou, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, George Ploubidis
BACKGROUND: Long-term sequelae of COVID-19 (long COVID) include muscle weakness, fatigue, breathing difficulties and sleep disturbance over weeks or months. Using UK longitudinal data, we assessed the relationship between long COVID and financial disruption. METHODS: We estimated associations between long COVID (derived using self-reported length of COVID-19 symptoms) and measures of financial disruption (subjective financial well-being, new benefit claims, changes in household income) by analysing data from four longitudinal population studies, gathered during the first year of the pandemic...
March 20, 2024: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health