email article In a single-center Italian study, about 30% of patients who recovered from COVID-19 developed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), researchers found. Among the 381 patients who were followed, those who developed PTSD were more likely to be women (55.7%), had higher rates of history of psychiatric disorder (34.8%), and were more likely to have had delirium or agitation during their acute illness (16.5%), Delfina Janiri, MD, of Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, and colleagues reported in a They also had more persistent medical symptoms after their initial illness (62.6%), the researchers found. "Further longitudinal studies are needed to tailor therapeutic interventions and prevention strategies," they wrote, noting that their finding of 30.2% is consistent with rates seen for other coronaviruses SARS and MERS.