Anxiety, Anhedonia, and related food consumption at the beginning of the COVID-19 quarantine in populations of Spanish-speaking Ibero-American countries: An online cross-sectional survey study

Landaeta-Díaz, Leslie; Agüero, Samuél Durán; Vinueza-Veloz, María Fernanda; Carpio-Arias, Tannia Valeria; Cavagnari, Brian M; Ríos-Castillo, Israel; Nava‐González, Edna J.; López, Saby Camacho; Ivankovich-Guillén, Sonia; Pérez-Armijo, Patricio; Bejarano-Roncancio, Jhon Jairo; Núñez-Martínez, Beatriz; Cordón-Arrivillaga, Karla; Meza-Miranda, Eliana Romina; Ortíz, Alfonsina; Mauricio-Alza, Saby; González-Medina, Gabriel

doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100933

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“…Our results suggest that transitioning to an intermediate level of depression, anxiety, stress, or loneliness may lead to a decrease in overall compliance with public health recommendations. While a growing body of evidence emphasises that worsening psychological health may lead to an increase in behaviours that amplify the COVID-related risks [ 30 – 33 ], our analysis demonstrates that even moderate mental health problems can have detrimental effects on health behaviour. This highlights the importance of maintaining and expanding budgets for mental health policy.…”

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Mental health and the overall tendency to follow official recommendations against COVID-19: A U-shaped relationship?

Apouey,

Yin,

Etilé

et al. 2024

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This paper investigates the association between several mental health indicators (depression, anxiety, stress, and loneliness) and the overall tendency to follow official recommendations regarding self-protection against COVID-19 (i.e., overall compliance). We employ panel data from the COME-HERE survey, collected over four waves, on 7,766 individuals (22,878 observations) from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden. Employing a flexible specification that allows the association to be non-monotonic, we find a U-shaped relationship, in which transitions to low and high levels of mental health are associated with higher overall compliance, while transitions to medium levels of mental health are associated with less overall compliance. Moreover, anxiety, stress, and loneliness levels at baseline (i.e., at wave 1) also have a U-shaped effect on overall compliance later (i.e., recommendations are followed best by those with lowest and highest levels of anxiety, stress, and loneliness at baseline, while following the recommendations is lowest for those with moderate levels of these variables). These U shapes, which are robust to several specifications, may explain some of the ambiguous results reported in the previous literature. Additionally, we observe a U-shaped association between the mental health indicators and a number of specific health behaviours (including washing hands and mask wearing). Importantly, most of these specific behaviours play a role in overall compliance. Finally, we uncover the role of gender composition effects in some of the results. While variations in depression and stress are negatively associated with variations in overall compliance for men, the association is positive for women. The U-shaped relation in the full sample (composed of males and females) will reflect first the negative slope for males and then the positive slope for females.

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Mental health and the overall tendency to follow official recommendations against COVID-19: A U-shaped relationship?

Apouey,

Yin,

Etilé

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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“…Entre las fortalezas del estudio es que se logró tener una cobertura a nivel latinoamericano. Entre las debilidades se puede mencionar que el estudio es transversal por lo que no se puede hablar de causalidad sino solo asociación; también hubo una baja proporción de encuestas realizadas por hombres, otros estudios on line realizados en temas de nutrición, muestran tendencias similares de participación de hombres 28,29 . No podemos desconocer la brecha del acceso a internet en los diferentes países estudiados, por lo que algunas poblaciones de menores ingresos o educación pudieron no haber sido incluidas, sin embargo, hay que mencionar que durante la pandemia las universidades de Latinoamérica realizaron las clases on line, lo que aumento el acceso a internet.…”

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Asociación entre consumo de alcohol y exceso de peso entre estudiantes universitarios de América Latina

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Introduction: Overweight and obesity are public health problems worldwide. Alcoholic beverages could increase total energy intake causing an increase in body weight. However, few authors have pointed out the association between this habit and excess weight in this population. The objective of this study was to determine the association between alcohol consumption and excess weight in university students from 10 Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methodology: A cross-sectional and multicenter study was carried out with 4,539 university students enrolled in ten Latin American countries. To assess alcohol consumption, the question Do you consume alcoholic beverages? (1 portion 1 glass of 200 ml). Body mass index (BMI) kg/m 2 was determined from self-reported weight and height. To determine if excess weight was associated with alcohol consumption, a logistic regression analysis was used, adjusted for age, sex, year of study, socioeconomic level, physical activity, and smoking. Results: Among students with normal nutritional status, 59.6% did not consume alcohol, while among those with a BMI ≥25 kg/m 2 it was 55.1%. Students who consumed 2 or more servings of alcohol per day had a 2.18 times greater risk of being overweight (OR: 2.18 [95% CI: 1.26 to 3.77]), compared with those who did not consume alcohol. Conclusion: It was observed that those students who consumed more alcohol were more likely to be overweight.

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“…Indicators of levels of trauma and anxiety in Ecuador were higher than those in other regions in a multi-country study (Ho et al 2020;Landaeta-Díaz et al 2021). Consequences of trauma are often felt months after the event, so it is to be expected that prevalence of PTSD will grow and persist.…”

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How not to manage a pandemic, and how to recover from it: Lessons from Ecuador

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Carrington

Carrión-Yaguana

et al. 2022

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Since the initial outbreak in December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in more than four million deaths worldwide. Ecuador initially experienced one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world. The pandemic quickly overwhelmed health care systems resulting in excess deaths of 37 000 from March to October, 2020. The public health measures taken to stop the spread of the virus had a devastating impact on the economy. There was a sharp contraction (7.8%) in Ecuador’s GDP in 2020. Furthermore, income poverty and inequality increased dramatically. The lasting effects of the pandemic will be harder to overcome. This article recounts and analyzes the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador, to draw lessons from this complex experience, and from the benefit of limited but important successes. We also aim to provide suggestions for best practices moving forward.

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Anxiety, Anhedonia, and related food consumption at the beginning of the COVID-19 quarantine in populations of Spanish-speaking Ibero-American countries: An online cross-sectional survey study

Cited by 12 publications

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Mental health and the overall tendency to follow official recommendations against COVID-19: A U-shaped relationship?

Mental health and the overall tendency to follow official recommendations against COVID-19: A U-shaped relationship?

Asociación entre consumo de alcohol y exceso de peso entre estudiantes universitarios de América Latina

How not to manage a pandemic, and how to recover from it: Lessons from Ecuador

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