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Association Between Long Covid-19 And Insurance Status Using The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (2022), Elizabeth E. Osbourn
Association Between Long Covid-19 And Insurance Status Using The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (2022), Elizabeth E. Osbourn
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Objective. To determine if insurance status can directly predict self-diagnosed Long COVID and what sociodemographic factors are significantly associated with a self-diagnosis of Long COVID among those who tested positive for COVID-19.
Methods. This cross-sectional study uses data from the 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to conduct a multivariate logistic regression model analysis. Out of 445,132 participants, 110,402 participants were identified to be used in this study.
Results. After testing positive for COVID-19, 21.7% of individuals were self-diagnosed with Long COVID. After controlling for confounders, insurance status wasn't significant (p-value: 0.8458). However, in crude analysis, individuals with Medicaid (cPOR:1.44; …