Ecological momentary assessment of physical symptoms among patients with a history of COVID-19 infection: towards understanding long covid and the role of mental health symptoms

Key Points

• The aim is to examine the relationship between long covid and physical symptoms, while considering mental health.
• Utilized ecological momentary assessment to collect real-time data.
• Analyzed symptoms among patients with a history of COVID-19 infection.
• Examined psychosocial functioning and affective disturbance as related factors.
• Long covid diagnosis predicts increased real-world ache and fatigue symptoms.
• This prediction is independent of baseline mental health status.
• Real-world physical symptoms correlate with poor psychosocial functioning and increased acute affective disturbance.