Effects of a Multi-Professional Intervention on Mental Health of Middle-Aged Overweight Survivors of COVID-19: A Clinical Trial

Joed Jacinto Ryal, Victor Augusto Santos Perli, Déborah Cristina de Souza Marques, Ana Flávia Sordi, Marilene Ghiraldi de Souza Marques, Maria Luiza Camilo, Rute Grossi Milani, Jorge Mota, Pablo Valdés-Badilla () and Braulio Henrique Magnani Branco
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Joed Jacinto Ryal: Postgraduate Program in Health Promotion, Cesumar University, Maringa 87050-390, Brazil
Victor Augusto Santos Perli: Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Intervention in Health Promotion, Cesumar Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation, Maringa 87050-390, Brazil
Déborah Cristina de Souza Marques: Postgraduate Program in Health Promotion, Cesumar University, Maringa 87050-390, Brazil
Ana Flávia Sordi: Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Intervention in Health Promotion, Cesumar Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation, Maringa 87050-390, Brazil
Marilene Ghiraldi de Souza Marques: Postgraduate Program in Health Promotion, Cesumar University, Maringa 87050-390, Brazil
Maria Luiza Camilo: Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Intervention in Health Promotion, Cesumar Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation, Maringa 87050-390, Brazil
Rute Grossi Milani: Postgraduate Program in Health Promotion, Cesumar University, Maringa 87050-390, Brazil
Jorge Mota: Research Centre of Physical Activity, Health, and Leisure, Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health (ITR), Faculty of Sports, University of Porto, 4200-450 Porto, Portugal
Pablo Valdés-Badilla: Department of Physical Activity Sciences, Faculty of Education Sciences, Universidad Catolica del Maule, Talca 3530-000, Chile
Braulio Henrique Magnani Branco: Postgraduate Program in Health Promotion, Cesumar University, Maringa 87050-390, Brazil

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 5, 1-14

Abstract: The present study aimed to investigate the effects of a multi-professional intervention model on the mental health of middle-aged, overweight survivors of COVID-19. A clinical trial study with parallel groups and repeated measures was conducted. For eight weeks, multi-professional interventions were conducted (psychoeducation, nutritional intervention, and physical exercises). One hundred and thirty-five overweight or obese patients aged 46.46 ± 12.77 years were distributed into four experimental groups: mild, moderate, severe COVID, and control group. The instruments were used: mental health continuum-MHC, revised impact scale–IES-r, generalized anxiety disorder-GAD-7, and Patient health questionnaire PHQ-9, before and after eight weeks. The main results indicated only a time effect, with a significant increase in global MHC scores, emotional well-being, social well-being, and psychological well-being, as well as detected a significant reduction in global IES-R scores, intrusion, avoidance, and hyperarousal, in addition to a reduction in GAD-7 and PHQ-9 scores ( p < 0.05). In conclusion, it was possible to identify those psychoeducational interventions that effectively reduced anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress symptoms in post-COVID-19 patients, regardless of symptomatology, in addition to the control group. However, moderate and severe post-COVID-19 patients need to be monitored continuously since the results of these groups did not follow the response pattern of the mild and control groups.

Keywords: coronavirus; health impact assessment; psychosocial intervention; rehabilitation research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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