Identification of initial severity determinants to predict arthritis after chikungunya infection in a cohort of French gendarmes.

Asthenia was coded “yes” if it was self-evaluated as “quite significant”, “significant”, “very significant” or “totally disabling” on the 6-item Likert scale, and “no” if evaluated as “absent” or “minor”, and mood was coded “depressed” if it was self-evaluated as “affected” or “totally depressed” on the 4-item Likert scale, and “not depressed” if it was evaluated as “normal or weak but confident”.

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