ArticleInternational journal of behavioral medicine2026
Healthcare Consumption and Work Absenteeism of Individuals With and Without Persistent Complaints After COVID-19: The Role of Cognitive-Behavioural Factors, Neuropsychological Functioning and Depressive Symptoms.
Article in International journal of behavioral medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
20 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundTo compare healthcare consumption and work absenteeism of individuals with and without persistent complaints after COVID-19 and determine to what extent cognitive-behavioural factors, neuropsychological functioning and depressive symptoms influence this relationship.
methodIndividuals with (n = 129) and without (n = 96) persistent fatigue (Checklist Individual Strength (CIS) fatigue ≥ 35) and difficulty concentrating (CIS concentration ≥ 18) at least 3 months (IQR 16-28 months) after SARS-CoV-2 infection were included. Using the Treatment Inventory of Costs in Patients, healthcare consumption (number of visits) and work absenteeism (≥ 3 weeks absent from paid work) in the past 3 months were assessed. Mediation analyses were performed to investigate whether the putative factors indeed influence the relationship between persistent complaints and work absenteeism or healthcare consumption.
resultsIndividuals with persistent complaints more often visited a healthcare professional in the past 3 months (3; IQR = 0-11) than participants without persistent complaints (0; IQR = 0-2, p < 0.001). None of the putative factors was associated with healthcare consumption. Work absenteeism (n = 21/85 with paid work) and work disability (n = 27/225) were only reported by participants with persistent complaints, so no mediation analysis could be performed. Within the group with persistent symptoms, worse neuropsychological functioning (attention and executive functioning) and two illness perception subscales were associated with an increased likelihood of work absenteeism.
conclusionThe relationship between reporting persisting symptoms and increased healthcare consumption could not be explained by cognitive-behavioural factors, depressive symptoms or neuropsychological functioning. In participants with persistent complaints, illness perceptions and neuropsychological functioning were associated with work absenteeism.
Indexed as
Identifiers
41593296What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.