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April 5, 2022
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Assessment of activities of daily living in patients post COVID-19: a systematic review

Publicated to: Peerj. 9 (e11026): e11026- - 2021-04-06 9(e11026), DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11026

Authors: Pizarro-Pennarolli, C; Sanchez-Rojas, C; Torres-Castro, R; Vera-Uribe, R; Sanchez-Ramirez, DC; Vasconcello-Castillo, L; Solis-Navarro, L; Rivera-Lillo, G

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Clin Los Coihues, Res & Dev Unit, Santiago, Chile - Author
Int Physiotherapy Res Network PhysioEvidence, Barcelona, Spain - Author
Univ Chile, Fac Med, Dept Neurosci, Santiago, Chile - Author
Univ Chile, Fac Med, Dept Phys Therapy, Santiago, Chile - Author
Univ Manitoba, Coll Rehabil Sci, Dept Resp Therapy, Winnipeg, MB, Canada - Author
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Abstract

Background: Coronavirus disease has provoked much discussion since its first appearance. Despite it being widely studied all over the world, little is known about the impact of the disease on functional ability related to performing activities of daily living (ADL) in patients post COVID-19 infection. Objectives: To understand the impact of COVID-19 on ADL performance of adult patients and to describe the common scales used to assess performance of ADL on patients post-COVID-19. Methods: A systematic review was conducted. We included studies that applied a physical capacity test in COVID-19 patients, post-infection. Two independent reviewers analyzed the studies, extracted the data, and assessed the quality of the evidence. Results: A total of 1,228 studies were included, after removing duplicates, 1,005 abstracts were screened and of those 983 were excluded. A final number of nine studies which met the eligibility criteria were included. The findings revealed worsening of physical function and ADL performance in all patients post COVID-19 infection. Conclusion: All included studies found a reduction of ADL beyond the test or scale used, revealing a vital worsening of functional ability in ADL performance and consequently loss of independence in COVID-19 patients after the acute phase of infection. Functional ability status previous to COVID-19 is crucial for predicting the severity of the disease and mortality. Barthel Index and ADL score were the most used assessment tools across subjects with different intrinsic capacity and context levels.

Keywords

activities of daily livingcovid-19functional assessmentrehabilitationActivities of daily livingCovid-19Functional assessmentRehabilitationSystematic review

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Peerj due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Miscellaneous).

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-12-15:

  • WoS: 11
  • Europe PMC: 45

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-12-15:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 227.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 228 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 18.
  • The number of mentions on the social network Facebook: 1 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 14 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Canada; Chile.

Awards linked to the item

Rodrigo Torres-Castro is funded by a grant from the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID)/Scholarship Program/DOCTORADO BECAS CHILE/201872190117. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.