Clinical and epidemiological characteristics and individual experiences of illness in men with COVID-19: mixed method study.
Andressa Reis de Sousa Vilas BoasDaniel Gomes SantosJules Ramon Brito TeixeiraLuciano Garcia LourençãoJose Luis Guedes Dos SantosRichardson Augusto Rosendo da SilvaAna Raquel Batista de CarvalhoAlvaro Francisco Lopes de SousaAnderson Reis de SousaPublished in: Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina (2022)
In men, the individual experience of disease explicitly explains the clinical markers of COVID-19 expressed by the self-reported syndromic approach. Additionally, this understanding also explains the behaviors observed in their search for health care, as well as the adoption of prevention and control measures and therapies recommended by health professionals.