Introduction:

Chikungunya disease is an arboviroais, caused by an Alfavirus virus of the Togaviridae family, transmitted by Aedes aegypti or Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. Objective: To determine the clinical characteristics and quality of life after Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection. Materials and Methods: observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study of patients with CHIKV during the month of August 2023. A questionnaire was carried out, sociodemographic data, diagnosis of CHIKV infection, duration of the disease and clinical manifestations were measured. The Spanish version of the “SF-36 Quality of Life Questionnaire” was included. Results: A group of 192 patients was evaluated during the study period. The average age of the study population was 36 +/- 13.62 years and 53.65% were female. Women reported worse health status (M: 68.93% vs. M: 55.06%) in general, and this increased with age. The most frequent symptoms were fever and polyarthralgia. Conclusion: All individuals reported some type of impairment in quality of life, particularly in the domains of physical role, vitality and pain.

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