Studies from University of Occupational and Environmental Health Provide New Data on COVID-19 (Avoiding the Use of Outpatient Rehabilitation Services Under Long-term Care Insurance During the Covid-19 Pandemic): Coronavirus – COVID-19

2025 FEB 17 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx COVID-19 Daily -- Current study results on Coronavirus - COVID-19 have been published. According to news reporting originating from Fukuoka, Japan, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “This study clarifies why patients avoided the use of outpatient rehabilitation services covered by long-term care insurance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Self-administered online questionnaires targeted 474 outpatient rehabilitation facilities under long-term care insurance in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan.”

Financial support for this research came from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the University of Occupational and Environmental Health, “Main avoidance reasons were users avoiding contact with other users, families avoiding contact with users and other users, and users avoiding contact with staff. Users’ physical and cognitive functions, motivation for activities, and assistance levels subsequently deteriorated.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Methods for providing rehabilitation are needed in future pandemics to ensure patients maintain physical and cognitive functions and live independently.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Avoiding the Use of Outpatient Rehabilitation Services Under Long-term Care Insurance During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Topics In Geriatric Rehabilitation, 2025;41(1):60-64. Topics In Geriatric Rehabilitation can be contacted at: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Two Commerce Sq, 2001 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA. (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins - www.lww.com; Topics In Geriatric Rehabilitation - http://journals.lww.com/topicsingeriatricrehabilitation/pages/default.aspx)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Satoru Saeki, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1097/TGR.0000000000000462. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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