Rapid COVID-19 Screening Based on Self-Reported Symptoms: Psychometric Assessment and Validation of the EPICOVID19 Short Diagnostic Scale.

Luca Bastiani Loredana Fortunato Stefania Pieroni Fabrizio Bianchi Fulvio Adorni Federica Prinelli Andrea Giacomelli Gabriele Pagani Stefania Maggi Caterina Trevisan Marianna Noale Nithiya Jesuthasan Aleksandra Sojic Carla Pettenati Massimo Andreoni Raffaele Antonelli Incalzi Massimo Galli Sabrina Molinaro

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2021)

We developed a short diagnostic scale to detect subjects with symptoms that were potentially associated with COVID-19 from a wide population. Our results support the potential of self-reported symptoms in identifying individuals who require immediate clinical evaluations. Although these results come from the Italian pandemic period, this short diagnostic scale could be optimized and tested as a screening tool for future similar pandemics.

Keyphrases

coronavirus disease
sars cov
sleep quality
respiratory syndrome coronavirus
risk assessment
human health
physical activity
loop mediated isothermal amplification