Long COVID-19 Enigma: Unmasking the Role of Distinctive Personality Profiles as Risk Factors, 2024, Amsterdam et al.

Long COVID-19 Enigma: Unmasking the Role of Distinctive Personality Profiles as Risk Factors
Amsterdam, Dana; Kupershmidt, Aviv; Avinir, Asia; Matalon, Ron; Ohana, Ofir; Feder, Omri; Shtrozberg, Shai; Choshen, Guy; Ablin, Jacob Nadav; Elkana, Odelia

BACKGROUND
The COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic has prompted extensive research into lingering effects, especially in ‘Long COVID’ patients. Despite exploration, contributing factors remain elusive;

OBJECTIVES
This study explores the potential link between distinctive personality profiles, particularly type D personality, and an increased risk of Long COVID;

METHODS
A retrospective cross-sectional study at Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center’s Post-COVID clinic analyzed data from 373 Long COVID patients through comprehensive questionnaires covering Long COVID syndrome, Fibromyalgia criteria, personality assessments, social support, and subjective evaluations of cognitive decline, health and life quality. In total, 116 out of 373 patients completed the questionnaire, yielding a 31% participation rate;

RESULTS
Cluster analysis revealed two groups, with Cluster 1 (N = 58) exhibiting Type D personality traits while Cluster 2 (N = 56) not meeting criteria for Type D personality. In comparison to Cluster 2, Cluster 1 patients reported heightened anxiety, depression, reduced social support, increased pain symptoms, manifestations of fibromyalgia, cognitive decline, and poor sleep quality, contributing to a diminished quality-of-life perception;

CONCLUSIONS
Findings highlight diverse personality profiles among Long COVID patients, emphasizing the need for tailored care. This approach shows potential for improving Long COVID patient care, aligning with the evolving personalized medicine paradigm.

Link | PDF (Journal of Clinical Medicine) [Open Access]

 

Yeah, well no optimal treatments are going to be developed if you waste everyone's time with this psycho-bollocks.

 

Thanfully it’s published in MDPI which means it won’t be taken too seriously. Because this study frankly just feels insulting.

 

So people who are more ill, with less social support, who had no mental health issues/ psychiatric diagnosis prior to covid, show up as more distressed after becoming ill, so we'll stick a personality dysfunction label on them.

 

33 years and counting because doctors (happily) let "researchers" like this take over ME/CFS and now LC. Without control or correction.

 

Ah, yes, the scam equation:

0 = 0 = effective = give us more money​

It's literally a coin toss and they could get similar results using astrological signs or Meyers-Briggs profiles, but as always, their conclusion is give us more money. There is no validity to personality profiles, they're as much random noise as Dungeons & Dragons character sheets.

An entire field of pseudoscience where results are completely irrelevant, all that matters is that it keeps looping.

And all completely indistinguishable from a joke in a cartoon sitcom about not bothering to do homework and just winging it.



And obviously, this is not at all what personalized medicine is. It has nothing whatsoever to do with personality types from some random junk questionnaire cooked up decades ago and using overlapping questions as some sort of gotcha that makes as much sense as telling someone they're a goat because they have 4 limbs and a face and so do goats. Good grief this is pathetic.

 

This 100%

 

"FM/CFS patients showed a less adaptive pattern with a high prevalence of Type D personality."

Debilitated and sick people score higher levels of distress in questionnaire shocker. Who knew?

"Our hypothesis posits that distinct patterns of coping mechanisms or traits could characterize individuals with Long COVID or render them more susceptible to the syndrome."

No need to spend oodles of time and brain effort on a hypothesis. Simply ask the people. Simples Positing hypotheses can go twaddle off

Seriously, makes as much sense to study like this as the patients star sign....... Absolute garbage

 

Bravo well said