COVID-19 Survivors Experience Significant Rate of PTSD, Study Says .
The study was published in 'JAMA Psychiatry.'.
It examined data relating to 381 patients who went to the ER to be treated for coronavirus. .
Most of them ended up being hospitalized.
30.2% of those patients developed PTSD, 17.3% displayed traits of a depressive episode and 7% experienced anxiety.
PTSD development was higher in people
with a history of psychiatric disorders,
delirium during acute illness and in women.
According to the study, those who developed PTSD were also more likely to report prolonged COVID-19 symptoms.
Another study, conducted by researchers from Britain's Oxford University and published in 'The Lancet Psychiatry,' .
found that up to one in five people who have survived COVID-19 develop psychiatric symptoms