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Revista Paraguaya de Reumatología
versión On-line ISSN 2413-4341
Resumen
VILLALBA, Emilio; ROMERO, Rocio y HETTER, María Eugenia Acosta de. Clinical characteristics of Chikungunya infection and its impact on the quality of life of patients in health care centers in the Central Department in August 2023. Rev. parag. reumatol. [online]. 2024, vol.10, n.1, pp.2-6. Epub 27-Jun-2024. ISSN 2413-4341. https://doi.org/10.18004/rpr/2024.10.01.2.
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.
Palabras clave : Chikungunya; Quality of Life; Functional Status.