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Table 2 MERS-related clinical information and experiences of participants in MERS survivors, South Korea

From: Posttraumatic stress disorder and depression of survivors 12 months after the outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome in South Korea

Characteristics

Measure

Total (N = 63)

  

N or mean

% or range

Status at the point of infection

Patients

20

31.7

 

Health care workers

15

23.8

 

Caregivers

11

17.5

 

Visitors

11

17.5

 

Others

6

9.5

Days of hospitalizationa

 

21

7–120

Days from symptoms to confirmed diagnosis

 

4

1–15

Total days of illness

 

23

9–150

Pneumonia

Yes

21

33

Ventilator treatment

Yes

12

19

ECMO treatment

Yes

4

6.3

Presence of a family member who died from MERS

Yes

8

12.7

Financial support

Yes

42

66.7

Information support

Yes

14

22.2

  1. MERS, Middle East respiratory syndrome, ECMO, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
  2. aThree cases did not answer the question