Prevalence of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Individuals with Long COVID

Introduction: The COVID-19 is highly infectious respiratory tract disease. Long COVID is determined as the presence of symptoms up to 3 months after Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus2 infection. Fatigue is the chief communal symptoms of acute and long COVID-19. Many survey studies have been done on fatigue severity of COVID-19 patients but very few studies have been done on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in Individuals with Long COVID. Hence, the need of this study is to find the prevalence of CFS after 1 year of COVID. Objectives: Total 750 data were taken from Ahmedabad, who were age group between 44 to 64 years of male-female, confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 and those who were infected with COVID-19 in India during second wave from March 2021 to June 2021 were selected for this study. Material and methodology: This is a cross-sectional prevalence study in which who fulfilled the eligible criteria, those individuals filled Fatigue Assessment Scale by themselves. Statistical software SPSS 26 was used. Results: The result of this study shows that the females were significantly more affected by fatigue and the age, smoking score and hospitalized as well as home quarantined individuals were significantly positive moderate correlation with fatigue score also shows that there was no statistically significant association between fatigue score and BMI. Conclusion: It is concluded that there was a prevalence of mild to moderate level of chronic fatigue syndrome present even after 1 year of COVID 19 in both the home quarantine and hospitalized individuals. Key words: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; Long COVID; prevalence;