{"id":10974,"date":"2025-12-03T17:05:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10974"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:05:25","slug":"work-performance-may-be-impaired-years-after-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/12\/03\/work-performance-may-be-impaired-years-after-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Performance May Be Impaired Years After COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/work-performance-may-be-impaired-years-after-covid-2025a1000wyj\">MedScape<\/a> Individuals with post-COVID condition reported lower work ability than those without the condition, with no meaningful change over the 3 years following infection; a higher proportion of those with post\u2011COVID condition experienced worsening physical and mental work performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>METHODOLOGY:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Physical and mental work performance and COVID-related sick leave were assessed at 36 months post-infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers analysed data of 667 individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection (median age, 43 years; 54.3% women) enrolled in a prospective population-based cohort in Switzerland to examine longitudinal changes in work ability and impaired work performance associated with post-COVID condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post-COVID condition was assessed at 12 months using self-reported COVID-related symptoms and a combined measure of self-reported recovery and health status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary outcome was self-perceived work ability, assessed using the Work Ability Index; higher scores indicated better ability to work, and assessments were conducted biannually from 12 months to 36 months post-infection.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedScape Individuals with post-COVID condition reported lower work ability than those without the condition, with no meaningful change over the 3 years following infection; a higher proportion of those with post\u2011COVID condition experienced worsening physical and mental work performance. METHODOLOGY: Physical and mental work performance and COVID-related sick leave were assessed at 36 months post-infection. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10975,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10974\/revisions\/10975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}