Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Pelotas, RS, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.
Epidemiol Serv Saude. 2024 Feb 23;33:e2023915. doi: 10.1590/S2237-96222024V33E2023915.EN. eCollection 2024.
To assess association between multimorbidity and use of health services in a population diagnosed with COVID-19, in southern Brazil.
This was a cross-sectional study with data from a longitudinal study carried out in the city of Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 2021 with all adult individuals diagnosed with COVID-19; descriptive analyses were performed and presented as proportions with 95% confidence intervals (95%CI); Poisson regression was performed and reported as prevalence ratios (PR) in order to assess association between multimorbidity (3 or more diseases) and healthcare service use.
In total, 2,919 participants were included, of which 40.4% had multimorbidity (≥ 2 diseases); the adjusted results showed that individuals with multimorbidity were more likely to use most of the services assessed, PR = 3.21 (95%CI 1.40;7.37), for Emergency Rooms.
Multimorbidity was associated with using different types of health services.
评估在巴西南里奥格兰德州里奥格兰德市进行的一项纵向研究中，患有 COVID-19 的人群中，多种疾病与卫生服务利用之间的关联。
这是一项横断面研究，数据来自于 2021 年在巴西南里奥格兰德州里奥格兰德市进行的一项纵向研究，研究对象为所有被诊断患有 COVID-19 的成年个体；进行了描述性分析，并以 95%置信区间（95%CI）的比例表示；进行了泊松回归，并以患病率比（PR）表示，以评估多种疾病（≥3 种疾病）与卫生服务利用之间的关联。
共纳入 2919 名参与者，其中 40.4%患有多种疾病（≥2 种疾病）；调整后的结果表明，患有多种疾病的个体更有可能使用评估的大多数服务，PR=3.21（95%CI 1.40；7.37），用于急诊室。
多种疾病与使用不同类型的卫生服务相关。
