الفهرس 
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Abstract
In addition to physical damage, COVID-19 also has a serious impact
on the mental health of the public. Therefore, the aim of the present work
was to assess the prevalence and predictors of psychological impairments
among post-COVID patients and evaluate the effect of applying
psychological rehabilitation program on those patients.
To achieve such aim, a cross sectional study was conducted on 328
post-COVID patients aged 21-80 years old who attended outpatient clinics
of Menoufia University affiliated Hospitals period from 1st of September
2021 to the last of December 2023.
The cross sectional study was to assess the prevalence and predictors
of GAD, PTSD and depression then an interventional study was conducted
to assess the effect of psychological rehabilitation on the study participants.
The participants were interviewed using a predesigned questionnaire
that consisted of five sections; the first section included questions about
identification data [age, marital status, education and occupation) assessment
of socioeconomic standard. The second section included questions about
COVID and post-COVID symptoms` severity. The third section included
questions about GAD (GAD-7) (validated Arabic question). The forth
section was composed of questions about depression (PHQ-9) (validated
Arabic question). The fifth section included questions about PTSD (PTC-C)
(validated Arabic question).
from this study, the results showed that:
1- The prevalence of GAD, depression and PTSD among post-COVID
patients were 48%,29%and 8.5% respectively.
2- It was found that there were statistically significant differences between
the studied groups of patients regarding socioeconomic standard and
educational level as 55.4% of depressed patients had low
socioeconomic standard and 52.2% of them had low educational level.
3- Low socioeconomic standard and high educational level were more
likely to have depressive disorders (odds ratio: 5.231and 1.689
respectively).
4- There was a statistically significant difference between the studied
groups of patients (group of patients who had depression and the other
group who didn`t have depression) regarding impaired activity of daily
level, having chronic disease and hospital admission (either ward or
intensive care unit admission), about 35.9% of depressed patients had
impaired activity of daily living , 37% of patients with depressive
disorders had chronic disease and 28.3% of depressed patient needed
hospitalization.
5- Also there was statistically significant difference between the studied
groups regarding the duration of hospital stay which was longer in
depressed patients (2.71±4.977) compared to non-depressed patients
(1.326±3.37).
6- Patients with history of ICU admission, present problems with ADL,
chronic diseases and hospitalization were more likely to have
depressive disorders (odds ratio: 3.788, 3.2, 2.71 and 2.26 respectively).
7- It was found that there are no statistically significant differences
between studied PTSD patients and non-PTSD patients regarding the
sociodemographic data (age, sex, residence, marital status, educational
level, working status and sociodemographic standard) .