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People with Suspected COVID-19 Symptoms Were More Likely Depressed and Had Lower Health-Related Quality of Life: The Potential Benefit of Health Literacy

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Nguyen, Hoang C., Nguyen, Minh H., Do, Binh N., Tran, Cuong Q., Nguyen, Thao T. P., Pham, Khue M., Pham, Linh V., Tran, Khanh V. +11 more·2020·Journal of Clinical Medicine

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic affects people’s health and health-related quality of life (HRQoL), especially in those who have suspected COVID-19 symptoms (S-COVID-19-S). We examined the effect of modifications of health literacy (HL) on depression and HRQoL. A cross-sectional study was conducted from 14 February to 2 March 2020. 3947 participants were recruited from outpatient departments of nine hospitals and health centers across Vietnam. The interviews were conducted using printed questionnaires including participants’ characteristics, clinical parameters, health behaviors, HL, depression, and HRQoL. People with S-COVID-19-S had a higher depression likelihood (OR, 2.88; p < 0.001), lower HRQoL-score (B, −7.92; p < 0.001). In comparison to people without S-COVID-19-S and low HL, those with S-COVID-19-S and low HL had 9.70 times higher depression likelihood (p < 0.001), 20.62 lower HRQoL-score (p < 0.001), for the people without S-COVID-19-S, 1 score increment of HL resulted in 5% lower depression likelihood (p < 0.001) and 0.45 higher HRQoL-score (p < 0.001), while for those people with S-COVID-19-S, 1 score increment of HL resulted in a 4% lower depression likelihood (p = 0.004) and 0.43 higher HRQoL-score (p < 0.001). People with S-COVID-19-S had a higher depression likelihood and lower HRQoL than those without. HL shows a protective effect on depression and HRQoL during the epidemic.

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Nguyen, H. C., Nguyen, M. H., Do, B. N., Tran, C. Q., Nguyen, T. T. P., Pham, K. M., Pham, L. V., Tran, K. V., Duong, T. T., Tran, T. V., Duong, T. H., Nguyen, T. T., Nguyen, Q. H., Hoang, T. M., Nguyen, K. T., Pham, T. T. M., Yang, S.-H., Chao, J. C.-J., & Duong, T. V.
Affiliations
  • Thai Nguyen National General Hospital (VN)
  • Taipei Medical University (TW)
  • Vietnam Military Medical University (VN)
  • Thu Duc City Hospital (VN)
  • Corvinus University of Budapest (HU)
  • Faculty of Public Health, Hai Phong University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hai Phong 042-12, Vietnam
  • Hai phong University Of Medicine and Pharmacy (VN)
  • Children's Hospital 2 (VN)
  • Department of Health Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, Behavior and Health Education, Hanoi University of Public Health, Hanoi 119-10, Vietnam
  • Taipei Medical University Hospital (TW)
Corresponding author
Duong, Tuyen Van
Venue
Journal of Clinical Medicine
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2020-03-31
Volume
9
Issue
4
Pages
965
ISSN
2077-0383 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3014073980
Cited by
557
References
69
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 39 · 2023: 110 · 2022: 122 · 2021: 152 · 2020: 108
FWCI
49.25
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Journal of Clinical Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften (ZB MED) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
Thai Nguyen National Hospital, Military Medical Hospital 103, Haiphong University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital, Thu Duc District Hospital, and Taipei Medical University (108-6202-008-112)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
Keywords
COVID-19 pandemic, health literacy, depression, health-related quality of life

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