Quality of life of a child with post-COVID syndrome (clinical case)

Abstract

Background. In recent years, modern medicine has been paying increasing attention to the patient’s quality of life, both in an interdisciplinary approach and in individual diseases. Quality of life is not only an important component of overall health, but also allows the clinician to develop an individualized approach to the patient based on general criteria for the pathological condition.The aim of the work. To assess the quality of life of a child with post-COVID syndrome.Material and methods. We studied the tonus of autonomic nervous system, the level of memorization, attention span and performance distribution, work efficiency, mental stability, and self-assessment of the anxiety level. The quality of life was assessed using our own method “Quality of life of children with post-COVID syndrome”. Results. A child with post-COVID syndrome developed vegetative, psycho-emotional, and cognitive disorders, which caused significant discomfort in everyday life and persisted for a long period. The neurovegetative changes described above were functional in nature, which allows us to hope for their reversibility. After the treatment, the teenager’s quality of life, based on assessment using our methodology, had a satisfactory score (43 points).Conclusion. The clinical case was characterized by asthenoneurotic disorders, autonomic disorders, increased anxiety, emotional lability, and some cognitive impairments that negatively affected the patient’s quality of life. The above describes the growing need for further development of assessment of the quality of life of children with post-COVID syndrome in order to form clear personalized algorithms for medical correction and rehabilitation of such patients.

Keywords

• covid-19
• post-covid syndrome
• quality of life
• children