Post Covid-19 symptoms among students: An ULSA2 experience
List of Authors
  • Huynh Cong Du , Nguyen Thi Hoa Tam

Keyword
  • Post COVID-19 symptoms, students, ULSA2

Abstract
  • Post COVID-19 condition, as defined by WHO, refers to a wide range of new, returning, or ongoing health problems in people who have had confirmed positive with COVID-19, and it represents a rapidly emerging public health priority. This paper aimed to discover whether the condition develops in students of the university of Labour and Social Affairs, Campus 2 in Ho Chi Minh City (ULSA2). Result revealed that students has experienced the post covid-19 problems in which the most common symptoms reported are: feeling headache, getting worse after physical effort, tiredness/ fatigue, sleep problems, difficulty in thinking and concentrating, dizziness when standing up, cough, difficulty breathing, joint or muscle pain, fast-beating or pounding heart, change in smell/ taste and anxiety disorder. The Covid-19 pandemic was also found to cause change in menstrual cycles among female students.

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