Clinical and Descriptive Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients

Year 2021, Volume: 3 Issue: 3, 147 - 152, 15.12.2021

Asuman Çobanoğlu , Nurten Gülsüm Bayrak , Ayşegül Coşkun

https://doi.org/10.48071/sbuhemsirelik.1003499

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Introduction: Identifying the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients and finding optimal treatment and care strategies to prevent disease progression is of great significance for reducing

mortality and the social impacts of the disease.

Aim: This research was conducted to determine the clinical and definitional characteristics of COVID-19 patients who were in a hospital.

Method: The sample of descriptive and retrospective study consisted of 127 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 and receiving treatment in the clinic. The data of the study were obtained from the files of the patients who were diagnosed with COVID-19 and hospitalized in the pandemic service and from the patient information in the hospital automation system (demographic characteristics of the patients, vital signs etc.). Descriptive figures, correlation analysis, and the Chi-square test were used in the analysis of the data.

Results: The average age of the patients included in the study sample is 63.14 ± 1.36, of whom 55.1% were women and 44.9 were men. The patients treated at the clinic 85.9% were diagnosed with fatigue, 52% with cough, 32.3% with taste change, 31.5% with dyspnea, 14.2% with nausea and 10.2% with vomiting. It was found that 11.8% of the patients included in the research were admitted to intensive care.

Conclusion: In this research, when the data of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 and inpatients were examined. It was determined that the most common symptom was fatigue and that patients of advanced age and male sex had a more intensive care unit admission level.

Keywords

COVID-19, patient, SARS-CoV-2, symptom

COVID-19 Hastalarının Klinik ve Tanımlayıcı Özellikleri

Abstract

Giriş: COVID-19 hastalarının klinik ve tanımlayıcı özelliklerinin belirlenmesi ve hastalığın ilerlemesini önlemek için optimal tedavi ve bakım stratejilerinin bulunması, mortalitenin ve hastalığın sosyal etkilerinin azaltılması açısından büyük önem taşımaktadır.

Amaç: Araştırma hastanede yatan COVID-19 hastalarının klinik ve tanımlayıcı özelliklerinin belirlenmesi amacıyla yapıldı.

Yöntem: Tanımlayıcı ve retrospektif olarak yapılan araştırmanın örneklemini COVID-19 tanısı konmuş ve klinikte tedavi görmüş 127 hasta oluşturdu. Araştırmanın verileri COVID-19 tanısı almış ve araştırma tarihinde pandemi servisinde yatmış olan hastaların dosyalarından ve hastane otomasyon sistemindeki hasta bilgilerinden (hastaların demografik özellikleri, yaşam bulguları gibi) alındı. Verilerin analizinde tanımlayıcı istatistikler, korelasyon analizi ve Ki-kare testi kullanıldı.

Bulgular: Araştırma örneklemine alınan hastaların yaş ortalaması 63,14 ± 1,36 olup, %55,1’i kadın, %44,9’u erkektir. Klinikte tedavi gören hastaların %85,9’unda halsizlik, %52’sinde öksürük, %32,3’ünde tat almada değişiklik, %31,5’inde dispne, %14,2’sinde mide bulantısı ve %10,2’sinde kusma görüldüğü belirlendi. Araştırma kapsamına alınan hastaların %11,8'inin yoğun bakıma yatışının olduğu saptandı.

Sonuç: COVID-19 tanısına sahip ve serviste yatan hastaların verilerinin incelendiği bu çalışmada en çok görülen semptomun halsizlik olduğu, ileri yaş ve erkek olan hastaların yoğun bakıma yatış durumunun daha yüksek olduğu belirlendi.

Keywords

COVID-19, hasta, SARS-CoV-2, semptom

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